ietf-nntp Mention port 433 in draft?

[News Master]

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Stan Barber wrote:

> I just checked with IANA's list of port numbers and there is nothing in
> that list that indicates that port 433 has anything to do with news or
> NNTP. Here is exactly what is listed. 

RFC1700 has a contact name for NNSP: Rob Robertson. The email address 
given is @berkeley.edu but he is now working @wired.com. I was in 
touch with him in June regarding this; here are his comments:

[begin quote]
> pretty much, just that, strip all the newsreading stuff out of NNTP,
> add the streaming transfer commands, and run the server off of port
> 433. 
[end quote]

To this end, I have been using 433 internally for news transit for some 
time, and found newsreading much more responsive with INN not having to 
bother forking. As a result, I'm effectively running two different 
protocols on two different ports: the NNSP subset with CHECK/TAKETHIS for 
transit, and the NNRP subset with XOVER/ARTICLE et al for reading.

Sometimes I've wondered if the standard could be better served by
formally splitting it into two "subprotocols" such as these. 

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