Re: LDAPS vs. StartTLS ext. op.

Howard Chu hyc@symas.com writes:

If someone at IANA were to tell us that this number assignment was officially withdrawn, then we would drop it. We really wouldn't have much choice, nor would any other implementor that wanted to claim that their LDAP product was fully IETF-compliant.

Thankfully, it's pretty unlikely this will happen any time soon. There are still free low-numbered ports, the whole low-numbered port thing is becoming less of an issue, and even among the assignments, there are ones that are far more obscure and less used than ldaps.