Not really NetApp related - just NFS related.

I meant to send this note out a long time ago. One thing the IETF would like is "user" review of Internet drafts.

The working group is moving towards a Proposed Standard over the next few months, which includes review by a wider audience of the standard. You don't have to be an "IETF member" or attend "IETF mtgs" to review.

If you're interested, take a look at the latest draft. It is the culmination of a lot of work originally by Sun in the form of a strawman proposal, and later one of our engineers, an engineer from HCL, Sun engineers to form the current specification.

This one has been reviewed extensively by the far flung working group - mostly through the e-mail alias.

Comments to the working group alias are best.

Clarifications and questions to me if you like.

beepy

P.S. Hi everyone - I've been quiet a long time.

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Message-Id: 200002091641.LAA09977@ietf.org To: IETF-Announce: ; Cc: nfsv4-wg@sunroof.eng.sun.com From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Reply-to: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-nfsv4-05.txt Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 11:41:38 -0500 Sender: owner-dl-nfsv4-engr@netapp.com Precedence: bulk

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Network File System Version 4 Working Group of the IETF.

Title : NFS version 4 Protocol Author(s) : S. Shepler, C. Beame, B. Callaghan, M. Eisler, D. Noveck, D. Robinson, R. Thurlow Filename : draft-ietf-nfsv4-05.txt Pages : 249 Date : 08-Feb-00 NFS version 4 is a distributed file system protocol which owes heritage to NFS protocol versions 2 [RFC1094] and 3 [RFC1813]. Unlike earlier versions, the NFS version 4 protocol supports traditional file access while integrating support for file locking and the mount protocol. In addition, support for strong security (and its negotiation), compound operations, client caching, and internationalization have been added. Of course, attention has been applied to making NFS version 4 operate well in an Internet environment.

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