A modified charter has been submitted for the Network File System Version 4 (nfsv4) working group in the Transport Area of the IETF. The IESG has not made any determination as yet. The modified charter is provided below for informational purposes only. Please send your comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg@ietf.org) by October 16. +++ Network File System Version 4 (nfsv4) ====================================== Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Brian Pawlowski <beepy@netapp.com> Spencer Shepler <spencer.shepler@sun.com> Transport Area Director(s): Magnus Westerlund <magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com> Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> Transport Area Advisor: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> Mailing Lists: General Discussion: nfsv4@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nfsv4 Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/nfsv4/index.html Description of Working Group: NFS Version 4 is the IETF standard for file sharing. To maintain the utility and currency of NFS Version 4, the working group is chartered to maintain the existing NFSv4 and related specifications, such as RPC and XDR and progress these specifications along the standards track. The group is also chartered to design an NFSv4.1 minor-version extension that adds a carefully-selected set of features The current charter items are: (1) NFS Version 4 Maintenance Under this charter item, the WG correct errors and ambiguities in the protocol currently specified in RFC 3530 and advances it along the standards track. Extensions of any other kind are out of scope under this charter item. (2) NFS Version 4 Minor Version NFS Version 4 contains within it the capability for minor versioning. Under this charter item, the WG develops a minor-version extension to NFSv4 that includes the following feature additions: - improve correctness around non-idempotent operations - enable delegation reclaims - support clustered file server deployments as defined by Parallel NFS (pNFS) (3) RPC and XDR protocol maintenance The NFSv4 protocol depends on two related specifications: ONC RPC and XDR. Similar to charter item (1), the WG corrects errors and ambiguities in the ONC RPC and XDR protocols currently specified by RFCs 1831, 1833 and 2203. In conjunction with the advancement of the NFSv4 specification along the standards track, the WG will also advance the ONC RPC and XDR dependencies. The WG will also update the ONC RPC specification for compatibility with IPv6. Additionally, it will create an IANA registry for RPC program numbers and seed it with a registry Sun has been maintaining. Goals and Milestones [replaces all current not "DONE" milestones]: DONE Request publication of "NFS RDMA Problem Statement" (draft-ietf-nfsv4-nfs-rdma-problem-statement) as Informational DONE Request publication of "DMA Transport for ONC RPC" (draft-ietf-nfsv4-rpcrdma) as Proposed Standard DONE Request publication of "NFS Direct Data Placement" (draft-ietf-nfsv4-nfsdirect) as Proposed Standard Dec 2007 Request publication of "RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2" (draft-ietf-nfsv4-rfc1831bis) as Proposed Standard Mar 2008 Request publication of "NFSv4 Minor Version 1" (draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1) as Proposed Standard Mar 2008 Request publication of "Object-based pNFS Operations" (draft-ietf-nfsv4-pnfs-obj) as Proposed Standard Mar 2008 Request publication of "pNFS Block/Volume Layout" (draft-ietf-nfsv4-pnfs-block) as Proposed Standard _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
