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- Distributed File Systems (dfs)
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- Charter
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- Chair(s):
- Peter Honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
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- Service Applications Area Director(s)
- Dave Crocker <dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu>
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- Mailing lists:
- General Discussion:dfs-wg@citi.umich.edu
- To Subscribe: dfs-wg-request@citi.umich.edu
- Archive:
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- Description of Working Group:
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- Trans- and inter-continental distributed file systems are upon us. The
- consequences to the Internet of distributed file system protocol design and
- implementation decisions are sufficiently dire that we need to investigate
- whether the protocols being deployed are really suitable for use on the
- Internet. There's some evidence that the opposite is true, e.g., some
- distributed file systems protocols don't checksum their data,
- don't use reasonable MTUs, don't offer credible authentication or
- authorization services, don't attempt to avoid congestion, etc.
- Accordingly, a Working Group on DFS has been formed by the IETF. The
- Working Group will attempt to define guidelines for ways that distributed file
- systems should make use of the network, and to consider whether any
- existing distributed file systems are appropriate candidates for
- Internet standardization. The Working Group will also take a look at the
- various file system protocols to see whether they make data more vulnerable.
- This is a problem that is especially severe for Internet users, and a
- place where the IETF may wish to exert some influence, both on vendor
- offerings and user expectations.
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- May 90 Generate an RFC with guidelines that define appropriate behavior of
- distributed file systems in an internet environment.
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- Internet Drafts:
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- No Current Internet drafts.
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- Request For Comments:
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- None to date.
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