Santa Fe meeting

[Peter Honeyman <[e-mail]>]

IETF DFS WG members:

Let's meet in Santa Fe and discuss recent progress in Internet-capable
distributed file systems.

Transarc recently released a set of documents describing the components
of AFS Version 3.  (See attached messages.)  Although quite voluminous,
I hope we can review them, with an eye toward consideration of whether
it is appropriate for corresponding RFCs to be forthcoming.

I am assured that Transarc will be represented at the meeting.

It would also be useful to learn what we can about congestion control
in NCS 2.0, the RPC layer on which OSF/DCE/DFS (a.k.a. AFS 4) is based.

I am hopeful that some folks from Sun might also attend, and that they
might be able and willing to describe developments on the NFS front.

If there is time, I will describe some of the recent work done here to
make RX (the RPC layer underlying AFS 3) perform better over slow and
congested networks.  A preliminary write-up of this work can be found in
/afs/umich.edu/user/h/o/honey/papers/rxp/rx.ps, available via AFS, or
via anonymous FTP from CITI.UMICH.EDU, or via NFS from EH.CITI.UMICH.EDU.

		peter

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Date: Tue,  3 Sep 1991 08:31:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
To: +dist+/afs/transarc.com/usr/afsps/cs/mlists/[e-mail]
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: All AFS-3 prog specs released!

Folks...

The set of AFS-3 programmer's specification documents have now been
released, and are publicly available in the GCO cell.  For those who
forgot, you may access the .dvi and PostScript files for these papers in
the following directories:

	/afs/grand.central.org/darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/
		archov - Architectural Overview
		bsrv - BOS Server
		fscm - File Server/Cache Manager
		psrv - Protection Server
		rx - Rx, LWP
		vvl - Volume/Volume Location Server

As usual, please send me comments, questions, suggestions, et cetera. 
For those of you who like pretty, shrink-wrapped and
professionally-printed versions of documents, the set will be also
available in this cool hard-copy format.  Please see the post by Dawn
Hinton dated 26 August for the gory details.

Please note that *one more* document in the series will be produced. 
Its title will be:

	AFS-3 Programmer's Reference:
	Authentication Server Interface

Its release date has not yet currently been determined, but I'll post
updates about it here as we have them.

May you find these documents useful!

    Ed.

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Date: Thu,  5 Sep 1991 09:08:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
To: +dist+/afs/transarc.com/usr/afsps/cs/mlists/[e-mail]
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Anon FTP access to GCO stuff

Folks...

I don't believe I've properly advertised the fact that access to the
grand.central.org cell is also possible via anonymous FTP.

People who are not yet running AFS and wish to rummage through the
contents of GCO should ftp to grand.central.org (IP address
192.54.226.100) and log in as ``anonymous'', giving your
name/affiliation as a password.  You'll find yourself sitting in the
equivalent of the /afs/grand.central.org AFS directory.  From this base,
you can cd around, find what you need, and copy it over.

For example, let's say you want to grab the AFS-3 File Server/Cache
Manager programming spec PostScript file.  You might type in something
like the following after setting up your FTP connection:

ftp> ls darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm/fscm-ispec.ps
darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm/fscm-ispec.dvi
226 Transfer complete
remote: darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm
97 bytes received in 0.45 seconds (0.21 Kbytes/sec)
ftp>
ftp> get darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm/fscm-ispec.ps
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for
darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm/fscm-ispec.ps (771321 bytes).
226 Transfer complete
local: fscm-ispec.ps remote: darpa/doc/afs/specs/progint/fscm/fscm-ispec.ps
784710 bytes received in 14 seconds (55 Kbytes/sec)
ftp>

There is a limit of three concurrent anonymous FTP connections to
grand.central.org, so if you can't get on right away, please keep trying
until you grab a slot.  By the way, the X11R5 distribution has been
opened up to the public this morning as of 9:00am (from directory
/afs/grand.central.org/pub/X11R5), so we expect the anonymous FTP slots
to be a scarce resource for a few days.

Please let me know if you encounter any problems with this method of
access, or if you have comments and/or suggestions.

    Ed.

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