Hi Ira,
I know this is a long-stale thread, but I was just re-reading RFC 2817, and Section 1 “Motivation” says this, which is germane to this subject (and even references IPP!):
1. Motivation
The historical practice of deploying HTTP over SSL3 [3] has
distinguished the combination from HTTP alone by a unique URI scheme
and the TCP port number. The scheme ’http’ meant the HTTP protocol
alone on port 80, while ’https’ meant the HTTP protocol over SSL on
port 443. Parallel well-known port numbers have similarly been
requested -- and in some cases, granted -- to distinguish between
secured and unsecured use of other application protocols (e.g.
snews, ftps). This approach effectively halves the number of
available well known ports.
At the Washington DC IETF meeting in December 1997, the Applications
Area Directors and the IESG reaffirmed that the practice of issuing
parallel "secure" port numbers should be deprecated. The HTTP/1.1
Upgrade mechanism can apply Transport Layer Security [6] to an open
HTTP connection.
Just wanted to share this with the group, for whatever reason.
Smith
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> On 2014-04-07, at 2:50 PM, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Found this afternoon by browsing of I-Ds from the active IETF WGs
> top-level list:
>>https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-port-use/ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-port-use/>
>> NOTE: This document does consider reuse of the same port for both
> ordinary and secure implementations of the same service. It doesn't
> take a position, except that the whole document is about conservation
> of the IANA-assigned port space.
>> Certainly our port 631 reuse in 'ipp:' and 'ipps:' URI is allowed (and
> apparently encouraged) by this I-D.
>> Cheers,
> - Ira
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