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Reported by Dave Crocker/Silicon Graphics

Minutes of the NFS and ONC IETF Standards Effort BOF (ONC)

Creation of the Service Applications Area suggests increased interest in
the ``middleware'' category of support services, above transport and
below specific application semantics.  Sun Microsystems' Open Network
Computing (ONC) suite of protocols provides a number of services in this
arena and has an established user base.  Sun has expressed an interest
in pursuing IETF standardization of the ONC suite.

At the Amsterdam IETF, two events were held to consider this
possibility.  The first was a Monday morning plenary presentation and
the second was a BOF. The plenary presentation was to announce the
discussions with Sun and to provide a basic introduction to the
technology.  The BOF continued the technical exposition, with detailed
review of the ONC components, and then discussed the IETF's interest in
standardizing the suite.  The protocols that would be candidates
include:


  o XDR, data representation
  o RPC, remote procedure call
  o NFS Version 2 & Version 3, file access
  o LOCKD, resource access coordination
  o NIS & NIS+, resource location


XDR, RPC and NFS V2 have already been published as Informational RFCs.
Further, they have been quite stable for a long time.  Version 3 is
quite new and has been implemented only on a few platforms; it is just
being introduced to the NFS development community.  NIS+ also is quite
new and not fully documented.

The BOF attendees seemed quite interested in ALL of the modules, though
there was no clear agreement to standardize all of them.  That is, there
is interest in proceeding, taking things one step at a time.  It was
agreed to form a working group which would serially process the
protocols, in whatever manner the working group felt best.  It was
expected that that would mean direct standardization of some of the
protocols, without modification, and possibly changing some of the
others prior to considering their standardization.

Quite understandably, the BOF discussion also probed Sun's willingness
to turn over control of the protocols to the IETF. (This is a formal
requirement, documented in RFC 1310.)  Sun has repeatedly offered its
assurances that a) it understands the requirement, b) it is comfortable
with it, and c) it wishes to work with the IETF on further growth of the
suite.

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Attendees

Steve Alexander          [email protected]
James Allard             [email protected]
Harald Alvestrand        [email protected]
Nutan Behki              [email protected]
David Borman             [email protected]
Piet Bovenga             [email protected]
J. Nevil Brownlee        [email protected]
Brian Carpenter          [email protected]
David Conrad             [email protected]
David Crocker            [email protected]
Geert Jan de Groot       [email protected]
Dennis Ferguson          [email protected]
Osten Franberg           [email protected]
Robert Gilligan          [email protected]
Terry Gray               [email protected]
Marco Hernandez          [email protected]
Gerd Holzhauer           [email protected]
Phil Irey                [email protected]
Scott Kaplan             [email protected]
Peter Koch               [email protected]
Sylvain Langlois         [email protected]
John Larson              [email protected]
Chuck McManis            [email protected]
Keith Moore              [email protected]
Jun Murai                [email protected]
Clifford Neuman          [email protected]
Michael O'Dell           [email protected]
Drew Perkins             [email protected]
Jim Rees                 [email protected]
Robert Reschly           [email protected]
Daisy Rose               [email protected]
Marshall Rose            [email protected]
Henry Sanders            [email protected]
Jon Saperia              [email protected]
John Stewart
Antoine Trannoy          [email protected]
John Veizades            [email protected]
Noriko Yokokawa          [email protected]



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