Re: [kitten] [nfsv4] draft-ietf-nfsv4-rpcsec-gssv3: request for review

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Mon, 04 August 2014 18:09 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Subject: Re: [kitten] [nfsv4] draft-ietf-nfsv4-rpcsec-gssv3: request for review
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 04:55:57PM +0000, Adamson, Andy wrote:
> On Aug 1, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> > (Was "multi-principal" my name for this?  No, I called them compound
> > authentication.  I prefer "compound”.)
> 
> Hi NIco
> 
> I changed the name from ‘compound’ to multi-principal’ in response
> the review comments at IETF 89 where many NFSv4 WG members expressed
> that ‘compound’ had too many meanings (especially in NFSv4.x) and
> led to confusion.

"Compound" is used as an adjective in all cases.  I don't see how
"compound authentication" (or "compound context handle", ...) is
confusable with "compound RPC".  But this isn't important enough to me;
aligning the terminology with AFS' rxgk is.  Ben, what does rxgk call
this?