Talk:List of TCP and UDP port numbers

External Links

I have just commented out a pile of links, please review the links by having a look at WP:WPSPAM , WP:NOT#LINK and WP:EL and only return the ones that need to be in the article. Peachey88 ^{(Talk Page | Contribs)} 05:27, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

RFC reference?

What is the current RFC reference for the WKPs and the ports >1023? I'd think that something like this should be in the 1st paragraph. 198.24.6.134 (talk) 22:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

The Official IANA list shows some of the RFCs for the WKPs. It is not apparent that there is an RFC for every port, well-known or not, from looking at the RFC article and its External Links. --4wajzkd02 (talk) 22:00, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Removal of external links

Moved from User talk:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason#List of TCP and UDP port numbers --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 20:47, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi there, we reverted each others edit in List of TCP and UDP port numbers and I like to comment a little bit: I suggest to add references and not external links (WP:MOS), secondly I would be in favour of removing all external links as they only attract commercial link spam over time. Cheers - 83.254.215.235 (talk) 23:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I agree that the article should have a references section, but part of that section should be made up by the very links you removed since they're links to corporate web sites that provide the best citations for the port numbers used by the commercial programs in question.

I disagree that we should remove those links since having some links might attract commercial link spam, that can be delt with as it gets added and I don't think we should be removing useful links in the meantime to guard against that hypothetical scenario. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 20:47, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Please be bold with your addition. ;) - 83.254.215.235 (talk) 22:34, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

My addition of what exactly? --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 03:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I ment using references in this edit [1], would be nice. Thanks - 83.254.215.235 (talk) 12:01, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Merge of Port 666

In March 2007 it was proposed to merge the stub article at Port 666 into this page. The Port 666 article was an unsourced and orphaned stub which simply noted an association with first-person shooters and viruses.

As there was no opposition to the merge over the following 12 months, I've now carried it out and redirected that page name here. There was no need to merge the Doom reference (it was already in this article) and the virus claim was unsourced.

This seems an uncontroversial merge but if others think otherwise I'm happy to discuss. Euryalus (talk) 05:35, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

ICQ & AIM

The IANA PORT NUMBERS list shows 5190-5193 allocated to AOL - 5190 does not list ICQ. The ICQ article notes "...the protocol is proprietary...". Just because AOL owns ICQ these days (via their purchase of Mirabilis) doesn't make the ICQ use of 5190 "Official". I plan to make a change in a day or so to show ICQ as "Unofficial" and in conflict on port 5190. --Joe Sperrazza (talk) 05:10, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't have a strong opinion on this but think there is no need to mark it as a conflict (unless another AOL protocol uses the same port). - 83.254.215.235 (talk) 23:44, 17 April 2008 (UTC)