On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 15:51:17 +0100
"Wilfred van Velzen -> Oli"  wrote:

 Ol>> Do we really need an official port number? Or is it better to
 Ol>> rely on other ways as many nodes use a non-standard port number
 Ol>> anyway:
 Ol>> - SRV records (_binkps._tcp should be mandatory)

 WvV> Not everyone's dns "interface" is able to set this I think.

Good point. Maybe that is true for some dyndns providers, which I rarely use.

 Ol>> - Nodelist flag (INBS?)

 WvV> You mean IBNS: ?

Yes

 WvV> Most flags seem to be a 3 letter combination, so
 WvV> maybe use: IBS: ?

Irritating bowel syndrome? I don't care much about the naming of the flag.

 Ol>> - should the client use alpn?

 WvV> If necessary. ;)

 WvV> But I have access to a lot of linux machines, older and newer. But
 WvV> none of the openssl and ncat versions I checked seem to support it...?

Okay. I didn't know that. ALPN is required for http/2 and http/3, it should be
supported by any recent TLS library. But I'm not sure how important it is to
(for example) share port 443 for http, xmpp and binkp.

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