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- Network Working Group The Internet Society
- Request for Comments: 2339 Sun Microsystems
- Category: Informational May 1998
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- An Agreement Between the Internet Society,
- the IETF, and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- in the matter of NFS V.4 Protocols
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- Status of this Memo
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- This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
- not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
- memo is unlimited.
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- Copyright Notice
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
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- Abstract
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- This Request for Comments records an agreement between Sun
- Microsystems, Inc. and the Internet Society to permit the flow of
- Sun's Network File System specifications into the Internet Standards
- process conducted by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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- Note:
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- This RFC is NOT a standard. It is an official public record of an
- agreement between Sun Microsystems and the Internet Society. The
- referenced RFCs 1094 dated March 1989 ("NFS: Network File System
- Protocol Specification") and 1813 dated June 1995 ("NFS Version 3
- Protocol Specification") are not attached to the document below, but
- are incorporated by reference.
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- ISOC & Sun Informational [Page 1]
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- RFC 2339 ISOC / Sun agreement on NFS May 1998
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- AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE INTERNET SOCIETY,
- THE IETF, AND SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
- IN THE MATTER OF NFS V.4 PROTOCOLS
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- This Agreement is made this 3rd day of March, 1998 by and between Sun
- Microsystems, Inc. ("Donor") and the Internet Society. In
- consideration of the mutual covenants and conditions set forth below,
- the parties hereto agree as follows:
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- 1. License Grant. For good and valuable consideration, receipt and
- sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, and solely for the
- purpose specified in Paragraph 2 below, Donor hereby grants to the
- Internet Society ("Licensees" which, for the purposes of this
- Agreement, shall include the Internet Engineering Task Force
- ("IETF"), the IETF Secretariat, and their respective members,
- officers, employees, contractors and participating individuals) a
- cost-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide right and license
- under any copyrights owned or otherwise licensable by Donor, under
- any Sun patent rights that are essential to practice the
- Specification, and any other Sun intellectual property rights to use,
- reproduce, distribute, perform, display and prepare derivative works
- of the Specification, and to authorize others to do so. For the
- purposes of this Agreement, "Specification" means the technical
- specification described more fully in Exhibit A, which Donor will
- make available as the initial point for development of the
- specification for NFS Version 4 as described hereunder, together with
- any technical specifications based thereon developed by Licensees.
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- 2. Statement of Purpose. The licenses granted in Section 1 are
- granted for the sole purpose of seeking to make the Specification an
- Internet standard.
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- 3. Evolution of the Specification. Donor further grants to Licensees
- a worldwide right and license to further evolve, develop and modify
- the Specification for the purpose of making the Specification an
- Internet Standard through the Internet Standardization Process (as
- specified in RFC 2026); Donor may not grant a license involving the
- Specification to any other party, including any standards group, that
- would authorize such party to evolve, develop, modify or promote the
- Specification as a standard. In particular, Donor acknowledges that
- if it performs any evolution, development or modification of the
- Specification outside of the Internet Standardization Process, that
- this should be clearly indicated as being a non-standard development,
- and that no reference to the Internet Standards Process is allowed
- for any such Specification developed outside of the Internet
- Standards Process.
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- 4. Non-Confidentiality. Donor hereby acknowledges that Licensees
- assume no obligation to maintain any confidentiality with respect to
- the Specification licensed hereunder. Licensees acknowledge that any
- rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by Donor. Donor
- represents that, to the best of its knowledge, there are no
- infringement claims against the Specification.
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- 5. Future License. Donor hereby acknowledges that Licensees have no
- duty to publish or otherwise use or disseminate the Specification,
- including, in particular, an obligation to raise the Specification to
- the Internet standards-track. Provided that the Specification is
- elevated to "Proposed Standard" level within 24 months of the
- execution of this Agreement, Donor hereby agrees to license the
- Specification to others at no charge and otherwise under
- substantially similar terms as those granted to Licensee herein (with
- the exception that such use of the Specification by such Licensees
- shall be for purposes of implementing and complying with the Standard
- rather than for making the Specification an Internet Standard), so
- long as such licensees of the Specification implement and comply with
- the Internet standard. In the event the Specification is not
- elevated to "Proposed Standard" level within 24 months of the
- execution of this Agreement, then the license granted in Section 3 of
- this agreement shall terminate.
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- 6. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. THE SPECIFICATION IS PROVIDED TO
- LICENSEES "AS IS", AND ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
- IMPLIED, INCLUDING FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. MERCHANTABILITY
- AND NONINFRINGEMENT ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED.
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- 7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. IN NO EVENT WILL DONOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY
- LOST REVENUE, PROFITS OR DATA, OR FOR DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT,
- CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, HOWEVER CAUSED AND
- REGARDLESS OF THEORY OF LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY
- TO USE THE SPECIFICATION, EVEN IF DONOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
- POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
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- 8. Acknowledgment. Donor agrees to permit Licensees to use Donor's
- name and address to indicate the original source of the
- Specification.
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- 9. Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement
- between the parties concerning its subject matter, and supersedes all
- prior written or oral agreements and discussions. All additions or
- modifications to this agreement must be made in writing and must be
- signed by an authorized representative of each party. If any term or
- condition of this Agreement is declared void or unenforceable as
- provided herein or by a court of competent jurisdiction, the
- remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. The
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- parties agree to comply strictly with all applicable export control
- laws and regulations. Where no U.S. Federal law governs, this
- agreement will be governed by the law of the State of California
- without reference to its conflict of laws provision.
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- IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to
- be executed by their duly authorized representatives.
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- Signature /S/ Rich Green Date 3 March 1998
- Name Rich Green
- Title VP Solaris
- SunSoft, Inc.
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- Signature /S/ Donald M. Heath Date 6 March 1998
- Name Donald M. Heath
- Title President and CEO of the Internet Society
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- Exhibit A The specifications embodied in RFCs 1094 and 1813, minus
- the portions of RFCs 1094 and 1813 that assume that NFS Version 2 and
- Version 3 operate over XDR and ONC RPC.* The control of ONC RPC
- program number 100003 (NFS) for the purpose of generating Version
- numbers 4 and onward.
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- *Note: ISOC already has a license to use XDR and ONC RPC (see IETF
- RFC 1790), and thus may determine whether or not to create an NFS
- Version 4 that uses XDR and/or ONC RPC.
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- Security Considerations
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- Since this document records an agreement rather than describes a
- technology security is not directly effected but, that said, one of
- the aims of an IETF NFS working group should be to ensure that a
- standards track NFS protocol has adequate security.
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- Editor's Address
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- Scott Bradner
- Harvard University
- 1350 Mass Ave. Rm 876
- Cambridge, MA 02138
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- Phone: +1 617 495 3864
- EMail: sob@harvard.edu
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- Full Copyright Statement
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
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- This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
- others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
- or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published
- and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any
- kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
- included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this
- document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing
- the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other
- Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of
- developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for
- copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be
- followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than
- English.
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- The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
- revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.
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- This document and the information contained herein is provided on an
- "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING
- TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
- BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION
- HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
- MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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