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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Peter Honeyman/UMich
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- DFS Minutes
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- The focal point of the Working Group continues to be wide-area NFS,
- i.e., NFS-across-the-Internet. Particular concerns fall into two areas:
- congestion control and authentication/authorization.
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- Regarding the former, the consensus is that real progress on congestion
- control for NFS lies in the hands of vendors, not in those of Internet
- researchers and engineers. Furthermore, many attendees doubt whether
- the Working Group can do much to influence vendors to address problems
- that are long-standing and well-known.
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- Along these lines, the following questions were raised:
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- o Can NFS' congestion handling be fixed?
- o Could Sun fix it?
- o Could the IETF fix it without Sun's cooperation?
- o Is it legitimate to focus solely on Sun/RPC?
- o Would Sun work with the IETF? Should we care?
- o What role does AFS play? Or the Guelph NFS on TCP?
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- The answers to these questions are not entirely obvious. Nevertheless,
- the Working Group is proceeding to document the shortcomings in
- NFS/RPC/UDP as they affect good Internet-citizenship.
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- The Working Group urges backbone and regional network administrators to
- monitor the ports used by NFS (principally UDP/2049) when gathering
- network usage statistics; in this way, the IETF can gauge the severity
- of the wide-area NFS problem.
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- Regarding authentication and authorization, the DFS Working Group deems
- it appropriate to delegate such issues to the Working Groups dedicated
- to these areas. The DFS Working Group will enumerate its special
- concerns and bring them to the attention of the appropriate security
- Working Groups at the next IETF meeting.
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- Attendees
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- Gregory Bruell gob@shiva.com
- Lida Carrier lida@apple.com
- Karen Frisa karen.frisa@andrew.cmu.edu
- Ken Hibbard hibbard@xylogics.com
- Russell Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
- Peter Honeyman honey@citi.umich.edu
- Ole Jacobsen ole@csli.stanford.edu
- Stev Knowles stev@ftp.com
- Carl Malamud carl@malamud.com
- Tony Mason mason+@transarc.com
- Matt Mathis mathis@pele.psc.edu
- Donald Morris morris@ucar.edu
- Chris Myers chris@wugate.wustl.edu
- Andy Nicholson droid@cray.com
- David O'Leary oleary@noc.sura.net
- Mark Stein marks@eng.sun.com
- John Veizades veizades@apple.com
- David Waitzman djw@bbn.com
- Carol Ward cward@spot.colorado.edu
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