RFC 3659 on Extensions to FTP

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        RFC 3659

        Title:      Extensions to FTP 
        Author:     P. Hethmon
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       March 2007
        Mailbox:    phethmon <at> hethmon.com
        Pages:      61
        Characters: 137962
        Updates:    RFC0959
        See-Also:   

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-16.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3659.txt

This document specifies new FTP commands to obtain listings of remote
directories in a defined format, and to permit restarts of
interrupted data transfers in STREAM mode.  It allows character sets
other than US-ASCII, and also defines an optional virtual file
storage structure.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Extensions to FTP
Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

Ftp-WG: Freedom for everyone

Ftp-WG: MFXX

Dear All,

I plan to get draft draft-somers-ftp-mfxx-02 out real-soon-now.

I've made some minor editorial changes.

The biggest change is to add the following text. All comments/criticisms
welcome.

If the NVFS supports the concept of creation times and modification times,
it is RECOMMENDED that server-PI give priority to setting the modification
time, even if that means to set the modification time requested by the
client-PI that the server-PI must also change the creation time. An example
is if the requested modification time is prior to the current creation time
and the NVFS does not permit the modification time to be prior to the
creation time; the only way to set the modification time in such a situation
is to first change the creation time to a time before of the same as the
requested modification time. Generally speaking, it is more important for
the modification time to be valid than the creation time, as the
modification time is typically used to perform object synchronization
between hosts.

Cheers from Luxembourg,

David Somers

Ftp-WG: Alfred Christensen is out of the office.

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