Re: {bb} It's official: IANA assigns BB port 1984!

["Rob Cotrone" <rcotrone@weebotech.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
To: bb@taex001.tamu.edu <bb@taex001.tamu.edu>
Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: {bb} It's official: IANA assigns BB port 1984!


>On Thursday 28 January 1999, at 1 h 13, the keyboard of Sean MacGuire
><sean@MacLawran.CA> wrote:
>
>> Sounds great.  Should BB be an RFC'd protocol - it's only has
>> one operation: SEND (connect to server via port 1984)
>...
>> Is it worth it?
>
>I think so, yes. Some RFCs are even smaller (protocols like daytime...) I
suggest, since a RFC would be to help to write clients and servers, to
emphasize extensions and interoperability with brothers which have a
different protocol version: what happens when you receive an unknown
(unknown because new) command, versioning and so on.


I think so also.
Start documenting while the interface is simple,
adding new commands in the future will just be an update.






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