Re: IANA registration

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Pete Forman <pete(dot)forman(at)westerngeco(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: IANA registration
Date: 2001-03-27 21:33:17
Message-ID: 200103272133.QAA08398@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Pete Forman <pete(dot)forman(at)westerngeco(dot)com> writes:
> > PostgreSQL typically uses port 5432 for client-server communications.
> > It would be a good idea to register this with IANA. This will help to
> > avoid a clash with other services that might try to use the port.
> > Might someone with a reasonable grasp of the low level messages in
> > PostgreSQL care to submit a registration?
>
> > http://www.iana.org/
> > http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/usr-port-number.pl
> > http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers
>
> This seems like a good idea. They seem to want a particular person's
> name as contact, so I suppose one of the core group should do it.
> Has anyone already initiated the process; if not, shall I?

This seemed like a Marc job to me. Marc?

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