Minutes for:

IETF NFSv4 Interim Working Group Meeting
Hosted in Ann Arbor, MI by University of Michigan - CITI
Sept 13-15


The NFSv4 Interim meeting was help Sept 13-15, 2006 in Ann Arbor, MI
to coincide with the NFSv4 interoperability testing that was taking
place the same week.  The meetings spanned three days to allow
for discussions and testing to continue between the meeting times.
The main purpose of the meetings were to review and discuss open
issues related to the NFSv4.1 Internet Draft and related work.

Each day, the agenda was reviewed along with blue sheets passed
and note well reviewed.

On the first day, Spencer started with a review of the issues
raised with the ACL section of the NFSv4.1 I-D and a proposed
plan on how to close on the issues and move forward with the I-D.

Once that was complete, Sam Falkner continued with a detailed
discussion of the ACL interpretations that had been made to that
point and offered his perspective on how it would impact the
current internet draft (should not impact if interpreted appropriately).

Bruce Fields then discussed the interpretation of the NFSv4 ACL
model and how an implementation for the Linux client and server
would embody that interpretation.  There were no major discussion
points raised during this.

Dave Noveck then presented the current state of the "parallel open"
discussion and offered and alternative proposal on how to deal
with the underlying requirement.  

On the second day, Spencer briefly covered the process the working
group wanted to undertake in reviewing the pNFS objects and blocks
internet drafts.  These drafts are progressing along with the NFSv4.1
I-D and the consensus that no special actions needed to be taken
beyond the regular calls for review.

Mike Eisler then covered the details of the updates made to the
NFSv4.1 I-D in the area of sessions and the motivations for the
deicisions made.

Dave Noveck then covered the issues in namespace parsing and
presented a proposal on how to deal with the issue.

On the third day, Tom Talpey reviewed the current state of the
RPC/RDDP I-Ds and their last call status.  He presented a
proposal on how to deal with the one issue raised in relation
to the effective encoding of the opaque lengths of XDR.

Finally, Mike Eisler reviewed the retention proposal and offered
and alternative or refactored proposal to be included in the I-D.


Attendees:

Robert Gordon robert.gordon@sun.com
Mike Eisler email2mre-ietf@yahoo.com
tigran miotdhyan tigran.miotdhyan
David Noveck dnoveck@netapp.com
Sergey Klyushin sergey.klyushin@hummingbird.com
Benny Halevy bhalevy@panasas.com
Marc Eshel eshel@almaden.ibm.com
Andy Adamson andros@umich.edu
Tom Talpey tmt@netapp.com
Trond Myklebust trond@netapp.com
Rahul Iyer iyer@netapp.com
Garth Goodson goodson@netapp.com
Peter Honeyman honey@citi.umich.edu
Mark Mackey mark.mackay@hp.com
Tom Vanderputten vanderputten_thomas@emc.com
Mario Wurzl wurzl_mario@emc.com
Stepehn Fridella sfridell@emc.com
Lisa Week lisa.week@sun.com
Sam Flkner sam.falkner@sun.com
Peter Varga peter.varga@hummingbird.com
Dan Trufasiu dan.trufasiu@hummingbird.com
Razvan Trufasui Razuan.trufasiu@hummingbird.com
Tao Zhou tao.zhou@hummingbird.com