[OpenISO] TELNET

[Norbert Bollow]

"Std Lib0" <stdlib0 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I picked telnet from the protocols on this list:
> http://openiso.org/pipermail/discuss/2007-September/000005.html

Cool, thanks!

> I'm trying to use the markdown language:
> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
> and adopting a width of 80 characters for the page:
> http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/07/1931246

Sounds reasonable to me, I'll put these links into the
first draft for the "OpenISO.org Core Guidelines"

> OI STD-E???:2007 TELNET

I'd like to assign the TopicID E400 to TELNET.

(What I have in mind for E100, E200 and E300 will become clear
soon, I promise. :-)

Since your conclusion is "discouraged", I think this should be
considered a draft "problem report", so I think the appropriate
label for the document is:

OI PR-E400:draft1

I've put it online at

http://OpenISO.org/OI/PR-E400:draft1

without any changes (for now) besides adjusting the document
label and renumbering the two last comments (because comment
number 5 had been doubly allocated).


Some comments on your comments:


Comment E400#8 about comment E400#1

  Yes, this is a serious issue.  The TELNET protocol specification,
  which predates the Unicode standard, needs to be updated to
  specify the rules for Unicode character transmission.  Otherwise
  OpenISO.org cannot endorse it.

Comment E400#9 about comment E400#2, E400#3, E400#4

  That the TELNET protocol lacks these security features is not in
  itself a reason against accepting it as a standard, since it is
  conceivable for a data processing device to have sufficient
  computational resources to implement the TELNET protocol but not
  enough computational resources to implement cryptographic security
  features.  However it is a serious issue that the TELNET protocol
  specification fails to clearly state that the protocol should only
  be used in such contexts.  Therefore OpenISO.org cannot endorse it
  in its current form.


Greetings,
Norbert.


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