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Re: [spec] mercury highlights ☿️

Bradley D. Thornton Bradley at NorthTech.US

Mon Mar 1 05:44:35 GMT 2021

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On 2/28/2021 1:04 PM, Sebastian Alejandro wrote:

On 2021-02-28 15:28, Bradley D. Thornton wrote:
And since we're talking port numbers, that brings up another matter.
Stephanie posted (or maybe I just read it  on her page?) about a
collision w/Tivoli on TCP 1965. She referred to  it as a 'serious'
conflict.
Looking on Wikipedia [1], the only mention of port 1965 is Gemini itself.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers

I believe what you were looking for can be found here:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?&page=35

It is however, of little import IMO, and I'm doubtful any Tivoli serversare still out there. We had some of that stuff at Filenet when IBMbought us, basically their vision of LDAP, which was and would becontained within the confines of an Intranet anyway, certainly, notsomething that would be sharing machinery with Gemini servers lol.

BTW, not a lot of folks realize this, but just like Mark Twain was toSamuel Clemens, IANA was pretty much just a nom de guerre of Jon Postelprior to his passing. One guy working out of a single office. ICANN madeit an actual body that now either serves, or is served by thatbureaucracy. Ergo, my fav RFC of all time:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468

Jon also wrested control of our DNS back from the Government about ayear before he died. Yup! The same Government that's trying to steal itagain. It all started with what we call the MoU, and if you'reinterested there's really good coverage of it in Ellen Rony's 'TheDomain Name Handbook'.

So don't forget people, it's private property (the Internet, that is -all that copper, fiber, and all those 'Cisco' and Big Iron routers), notpublic property. Right to pass revocable by owner at anytime. TheGovernment has no Right of way, and as far as imminent domain goes, I'mnot sure if the fiber or the racks qualify as real estate.

And with that, I'm def going to turn in for the evening and grab a fewhours of shuteye. I'm rambling on about things that died in the 90's.

I hope that helps :)

Kindest regards,

-- Bradley D. ThorntonManager Network Serviceshttp://NorthTech.USTEL: +1.310.421.8268