Hi, ----- "Thomas Keiser" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Spencer Shepler contacted me in late 2012 to ask whether I intended > this for IETF standards-track (because he was concerned that I was > pushing many I-D revisions without making any entreaties to his WG). > At the time, I told him that I assumed the mechanism was uninteresting > to the NFS WG--due to their reliance upon ONC RPC's interface > versioning mechanism to achieve a similar effect. Our correspondence > died there, so I gather he agreed with that assessment. NFSv4 more explicitly relies on the NFSv4 minor versioning mechanism in this case, I think. But It's an interesting question how to reach the attention of the wider set of ONC stakeholders who might benefit. > > > Nevertheless, if the group feels we should seek publication as an > extension to 4506, I'm certainly willing to ask the WG chairs whether > they think this would be of general interest. I can certainly see an > argument where standards-track would make sense; there are many XDR > consumers outside of NFS/ONC RPC that could potentially benefit from > this enhancement (e.g., NDMP?). > > Cheers, > > -Thomas Matt -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 http://linuxbox.com tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 _______________________________________________ AFS3-standardization mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization
