[Techtalk] IANA and port numbers

[Julie]

David Merrill wrote:
> 
> I need to come up with an "official" port number for ScrollServer to
> use. Does anyone have any experience working with IANA? Can you give
> me any pointers? Should I even register a System Port Number?

Is this something that everyone on the planet is going to want
to have?  Not literally, but it shouldn't be something of limited
interest.

On the other hand, you can just stick an entry in /etc/services
and use getservbyname() to determine the port number.
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