Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00

[Peter Gutmann <pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost>]

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf%elandsys.com@localhost> writes:

>The SSH File Transfer Protocol provides secure file transfer functionality
>over any reliable data stream.  It is the standard file transfer protocol for
>use with the SSH2 protocol. draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00 (
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00 ) describes the
>file transfer protocol and its interface to the SSH2 protocol suite.
>
>I would appreciate if you read the draft and comment.

Some background information on this decision would be useful, for example why
restart work on it now, and why use version 3 of the protocol as the baseline?

Peter.