Dropbox has an IANA port number now

Pardon my ignorance, but how big of a deal is this? It seems pretty much anyone can make something a "well-known port". My quick check found at least 5 more (non-Dropbox) ports added today.<p>In any case, I'm sure this can only be good for Dropbox and its users. Congrats to the team!

Is the dropbox protocol specified anywhere?<p>Edit: My google-fu isn't finding anything.

Port 17500 tcp and udp.

So bad nobody will use it. Many enterprise firewalls only allow port 80 today and a bunch of well know applications.

Am I the only one that read that as "I am not a port number now"?

Is the Dropbox protocol open and has an RFC? If not I think IANA should revise their practices to only allow registration of ports for protocols that do.

Let us know whey they have a client that doesn't bring my workstation to its knees every 1/2 hour.

Congrats enki!