Working Group: NFSv4
Area Director: David Harrington
Document Author/Shepherd: Spencer Shepler (sshepler@microsoft.com)
Internet Draft:
draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-fs-dns-srv-namespace-07.txt
(1.a) Spencer Shepler (sshepler@microsoft.com) is the document shepherd.
I have reviewed the document and believe it is ready as an RFC.
(1.b) This document and the mechanisms it represents have been
reviewed within and outside of the NFSv4 working group.
(1.c) The document shepherd has not identified any further
review or input as required.
(1.d) The document shepherd is very comfortable with the contents
of the I-D and the mechanisms it represents. What comments
or feedback provided to the document authors have been
in addressed in this or earlier versions.
(1.e) There is full NFSv4 working group consensus behind this document.
There have been no major disagreements for the lifetime of this
docuement and certainly no outstanding issues.
(1.f) There have been no discussion of appeal or discontent
with this I-D.
(1.g) The document shepherd has reviewd the document with
the ID nits in mind.
(1.h) The document has correctly divided references into
normative and informative groupings. All normative references
are in the clear; there are no open dependencies.a
(1.i) An IANA section does exist and it is appropriate for the I-D.
(1.j) The I-D does not use any formal language as part of its specification.
(1.k) <announcement is as follows>
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.