Network File System Version 4 (nfsv4)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: BOF
 
 Chair(s):
     Brent Callaghan <brent@eng.sun.com>
 
 Transport Area Director(s): 
     Scott Bradner  <sob@harvard.edu>
     Allyn Romanow  <allyn.romanow@eng.sun.com>
 
 Mailing lists: 
     General Discussion:nfsv4-wg@sunroof.eng.sun.com
     To Subscribe:      
     Archive:           ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/nfsv4
 
Description of Working Group:
 
The objective of this BOF is to discuss technical features
of a proposed NFS version 4 to be developed in an IETF WG.

The ISOC and Sun are working on the change control transfer,
based on RFC1790 as a model.


The objective of this working group is to advance the state of NFS
technology by producing a specification for NFS version 4 which will
also be submitted as an Internet standard. NFS version 4 will emphasize
the following core features:

o Improved access and good performance on the Internet.

  The protocol will be designed to transit firewalls easily, perform
  well where latency is high and bandwidth is low, and scale to very
  large numbers of clients per server.

o Strong security with negotiation built into
  the protocol.

  The protocol will build on the work of the ONCRPC working group in
  supporting the RPCSEC_GSS protocol.  Additionally NFS version 4 will
  provide a mechanism to allow clients and servers to negotiate
  security and require clients and servers to support a minimal set of
  security schemes.

o Better cross-platform interoperability.

  The protocol will feature a filesystem model that provides a useful,
  common set of features that does not unduly favor one filesystem or
  operating system over another.

o Designed for protocol extensions.
  The protocol will be designed to accept standard
  extensions that do not compromise backward compatibility.

The NFS version 4 protocol will emphasize, but not be limited to these
core features.  Additional improvements will be considered if they are
considered reasonable, useful, and do not conflict with the core
features.
 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
   Mar 97       Submit intellectual property agreement to ISOC, word-for-word 
                matching RFC 1790, the agreement that gave IETF change control 
                of ONCRPC.                                                     

   Mar 97       Submit an strawman Internet Draft of the NSFv4 protocol.       

   Apr 97       Meet at Memphis IETF.                                          

   Aug 97       Meet at Munich IETF.                                           

   Dec 97       Submit NFS version 4 to IESG for consideration as a Proposed 
                Standard.                                                      

   Jan 98       Area Director review and likely WG hiatus or conclusion.       

   Jun 98       Submit NFS version 4 to IESG for consideration as a Draft 
                Standard.                                                      


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.