Re: avoiding reinventing the wheel on file transfer.

[Darren Moffat <Darren.Moffat%eng.sun.com@localhost>]

>So, I have this concern that we're going to spend a whole lot of time
>on the file transfer draft, and in the process reinvent a couple
>wheels which have already been built.

>Here's a half-formed suggestion for the working group...
>
>file transfer involves a bunch of really ugly issues (newline
>conventions, binary/ascii/... modes, i18n of filenames, etc., etc.).
>Many of these problems have already been tackled by FTP.

To me it looks like the current filexfer draft is trying to be more
than FTP and is starting to look more and more like an early version
of NFS so I share the concern.


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Darren J Moffat