Re: [nfsv4] Last call for NSDB Protocol for Federated Filesystems (Oct 4 - Oct 22nd)

[Nicolas Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 11:06:51AM -0500, James Lentini wrote:
> As Nico suggested, one approach to preventing incompatible extensions 
> would be an IANA-maintained registry of annotation keys. I'm not 
> certain of how such a registry would function, but I suspect it would 
> only prevent namespace collisions. In other words, the registry should 
> prevent two different definitions of the annotation key "foo", but 
> would it detect that annotation key "foo" and annotation key "bar" 
> implemented overlapping ideas?

The registration rules could be such that a description of the value
contents (semantic and syntactic) would be required, thus achieving more
than collision prevention: the registry would also enable
interoperability.

Nico
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