Re: [9fans] Secure ftp Again

[lucio@proxima.alt.za]

> I hadn't heard about the icann deprecation; do you have a pointer to
> it?
> 
I hope that's IETF, if it's ICANN, it certainly doesn't carry much
weight outside the US ;-)

> I guess I'd been thinking that cs would strip !tls from the end before
> passing the modified string (containing IP address rather than domain
> name) to /net/tcp, though I suppose access to certificates would be
> complicated by having cs, running as hostowner, start TLS.  Sounds
> like it's now moot anyway.

Can certificates not be served in a factotum fashion?  I've been
scratching my head over PEM and its cousins for a while and I feel
Plan 9 has the right infrastructure to at least alleviate this
particular migraine.

In fact, there are many such corners of the IT universe that could do
with ambitious redesign within the Plan 9 namespace paradigm, I'd like
to see a forum where these are discussed and, hopefully, brought to
maturation.  I suspect 9fans is inappropriate as there is (sorry for
stealing your wind, Choate) an entry barrier to those with ideas but
no code to contribute.

That said, I agre that code contribution is the way to go, I just wish
I had the stamina for it.

++L