Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VyxDg-0004Rj-Bo for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 05:22:52 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from nl.grid.coop ([50.7.166.116]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1VyxDf-0004pz-5A for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 05:22:52 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nl.grid.coop with local; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 23:22:43 -0600 id 000000000006E26D.0000000052C64923.00005C58 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 23:22:43 -0600 From: Troy Benjegerdes To: Bitcoin Dev Message-ID: <20140103052243.GK3180@nl.grid.coop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.5 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain X-Headers-End: 1VyxDf-0004pz-5A Subject: [Bitcoin-development] BIP: register with IANA for bitcoin/cryptocoin port numbers X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 05:22:52 -0000 I believe this is self-explainatory: 1) Bitcoin usually runs on port 8333. Why? 2) Bitcoin does not show in up http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml .. why? 3) What needs to happen to have someone from the Bitcoin foundation to fill out the form asking for an assigned port (see http://www.iana.org/form/ports-services ) 4) what should the process be for new cryptocoins to get both default port numbers, as well as P2P network identifier 'magic numbers'