Re: IANA port ups/401

[Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2021, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:51:55PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> > Has any reader of this list ever used IANA port ups/401
> > "Uninterruptible Power Supply" (other than the One Windows Trojan)?
> > I'm looking for protocol documentation or reports of usage. The port
> > was assigned in 2008 to Mr. Charles Bennett as both assignee and
> > contact. Mr. Bennett himself died in 2015.
>
> Funny. Search engine finds someone with your name:
>
>  https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=%22401%22+%22UPS%22+site:tools.ietf.org
>
> giving:
>
>  https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rprice-ups-management-protocol-00
>
> I have the strong hunch you /know/ this person :-)

I do not confirm and I do not deny that I know that guy :-) In the discussions 
associated with the I-D, I expect IANA to ask to be shown that there are no 
current users for ups/401.  It seemed useful to tap the accumulated wisdom and 
deep memories of the debian list.

Cheers, Roger