While I get where he's coming from, through his own arguements he's shot himself in the foot.
"Due to many institutions having policies against FTP and peer-to-peer protocols, HTTP has become the de facto standard in sharing scientific data."
So, the arguements is that some organisations need a waiver policy to permit FTP and peer-to-peer (and any other traffic type) depending on the requirements of the application (and I mean proper requirements like time critical delivery and minimal packet size, not just lazy coders who can't be arsed to learn about security when it's actually important). p.s. Those protocols may be secured on dedicated networks or in many other ways
Biting the hand that feeds IT
