The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Using DNS SRV to Specify a Global File Name Space with NFS version 4' (draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-fs-dns-srv-namespace-13.txt) as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Network File System Version 4 Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Martin Stiemerling and Wesley Eddy. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-fs-dns-srv-namespace/ Technical Summary The NFS version 4 protocol provides a natural way for a collection of NFS file servers to collaborate in providing an organization-wide file name space. The DNS SRV RR allows a simple and appropriate way for an organization to publish the root of its name space, even to clients that might not be intimately associated with such an organization. The DNS SRV RR can be used to join these organization-wide file name spaces together to allow construction of a global, uniform NFS version 4 file name space. Working Group Summary This NFSv4 name space discovery mechanism is an important first step to federating NFSv4 file servers. Once an organization appropriate NFSv4 file server is located, the NFSv4 protocol, with the use of the FedFS backend services, will provide cohesive access to an organization's overall distributed file system name space. Document Quality This document describes a effective use of a well-known mechanism. The mechanism has been prototyped and the working group is comfortable with the future success of the mechanism. Personnel Document Shepherd:Spencer Shepler (sshepler@microsoft.com) Responsible Area Director: Martin Stiemerling (martin.stiemerling@neclab.eu)
