Re: WG Review: Network File System Version 4 (nfsv4)

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

> o NFS version 4
> 
>   Advance the protocol along the standards track, coordinating the
>   development of test suites to provide a high level of implementation
>   quality. The ONC RPC standards that NFSv4 references must also be
>   advanced. This includes work to make NFSv4 and the underlying ONC
>   RPC protocol compatible with IPv6.

not a charter issue - but while I'm thinking about it, if the NFS
protocol hasn't been fixed to deal with ICMP "too big" messages, it
needs to be.  you'll certainly run into problems with them with IPv6,
because v6 routers won't fragment packets and because tunneling is quite
common in v6.  the result isn't pretty.


> o Minor Versions
> 
>   NFS Version 4 contains within it the capability for minor
>   versioning. Some discussions within the working group suggest
>   addressing additional requirements over the original charter.  The
>   WG will work to identify additional requirements for NFSv4 and
>   determine if they are appropriate and worthwhile for a minor
>   version.  This work may lead to proposals for additional work items.
>    If it does a specific
>   proposal to add these work items to the charter will be forwarded to
>   the IESG and IAB.

this seems like a strange issue for a charter.  sure, a version change
might be useful or even necessary (as opposed to just adding new RPCs
and a way to discover them), but "may lead to proposals for additional
work items" seems rather vague - is it presumed that those work items
have to do with version support, or feature negotiation, or what?

Keith