[Federated-fs] Request to add federated-fs work to the IETF NFSv4 WG charter

[Ellard, Daniel]

This morning I sent email to the IETF NFSv4 WG (nfsv4 at ietf.org)
requesting that the work we've been discussing on this list be brought
into the WG charter.  If you're on that mailing list, you've probably
already got it in your mailbox, but I've appended a copy of the letter
below.

In order to move this forward, now is the time to demonstrate consensus
that this work should be picked up.  (Even if you disagree with the
current drafts, you can still agree that this topic should be added to
the charter.)

Please consider sending a note to nfsv4 at ietf.org with your opinion, pro
or con, and any amendments or addendum you feel appropriate.  If you
don't want to broadcast your position, it's probably sufficient to send
it to the WG chairs (Spencer Shepler <Spencer.Shepler at Sun.COM> and Brian
Pawlowski <beepy at NetApp.Com>).

Thanks,
	-Dan

On behalf of myself, Craig Everhart (NetApp), Renu Tewari (IBM), and
Manoj Naik (IBM):

As discussed at the NFSv4 WG meeting in Philadelphia at the beginning of
March, we request that the work we have been doing to develop a
requirements document for a federated naming system that can be used to
implement a federated file system, and protocols that satisfy the
requirements, be taken up for review by the NFSv4 WG.  The first
milestone will be to refine the requirements document so that it can be
published as an informational RFC.
The next milestone is to publish the specifications for the proposed
protocols, based on the requirements document, as draft RFCs for
discussion in the NFSv4 WG.

The starting points for the WG discussion are a preliminary requirements
document and protocol specification.  These documents are the result of
more than a year of open discussion in the form of BoF sessions at
FAST'07 and FAST'08, discussion on an open mailing list
(federated-fs at ucsd.edu), and frequent open conference calls (announced
on the federated-fs list).  Participants in this discussion have
included representatives from NetApp, IBM, Sun, EMC, Rainfinity, CITI,
and others.  The current state of the work is summarized in the
following personal drafts:

draft-ellard-nfsv4-federated-fs-00

draft-tewari-nfsv4-federated-fs-protocol-01

draft-ellard-nfsv4-federated-fs-admin-00

-- 
Daniel Ellard, Ph.D.
NetApp Advanced Technology Group