[ih] Today’s Internet Still Relies on an ARPANET-Era Protocol: The Request for Comments (Steve Crocker)

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FTP is also being used for very large scale, parallel file transfers with 
GLOBUS within grid-ftp.  Granted, they've extended the FTP spec 
accordingly to make all that work.

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020, Scott Brim via Internet-history wrote:

> Bernie, FTP gets used every day by millions who use cPanel and Plesk and
> even Filezilla for less-than-completely-privileged maintenance on websites.
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 7:11 PM Bernie Cosell via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> On 7 Aug 2020 at 11:52, the keyboard of geoff goodfel wrote:
>>
>>> *The RFC may be the ARPANET’s most enduring legacy*
>>> EXCERPT:
>>
>> On FB I opined that SMTP might be a contender [and mentioned that I'm told
>> that FTP and TELNET are still used, but I barely believe it :o)]
>>
>>   /Bernie\
>>             Bernie Cosell
>>        bernie at fantasyfarm.com
>> -- Too many people; too few sheep --
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