Re: Intent to close the ssh working group

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%Sun.COM@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:27:57PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> For completeness, I'll point out that another possibility would be to find 
> some other AD to sponsor the document as an individual IETF submission.

Well, yes.

> I suspect that the set of people likely to be interested in working on a 
> filesystem access protocol is different than the set where were interested 
> in working on the core ssh protocol.  So, it's entirely possible that a BOF 
> on this subject may produce enough interest to form a WG.

For one item?  Note that the security area wouldn't be a very good home
for this.  The transport area seems more appropriate, particularly for a
filesystem protocol.

> Personally, I'd very much like to see an actual _file transfer_ protocol 
> that I can run over SSH.  Maybe SCP is sufficient for this; I don't know.

SCP is not sufficient.

Nico
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