Deprecating base system ftpd?

[Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)]

Ruben van Staveren via freebsd-stable writes:

> It is time to deprecate ftp altogether, and any other protocols that =
> embed protocol information in layer 7, thus hurting any #IPv6 migration =
> and deployment technology (SIIT-DC e.g).

> ftp, a protocol not using TLS protection [...]

You seem to be a couple of decades behind the times.

RFC4217 (Securing FTP with TLS) was published on 2005.  IPv6 suopport
dates back to 1998 in RFC 2428 (FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs).

It would be nice if the base system ftpd grew TLS support.  OpenBSD has
had this for years.

--lyndon