Re: [nfsv4] Review of 3530bis "Multi-Server Namespace" Chapter

James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com> Thu, 23 September 2010 14:06 UTC

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On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Thomas Haynes wrote:

> 
> On Sep 22, 2010, at 6:31 PM, James Lentini wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Throughout Chapter 7, I noticed a few minor typos that I remembered 
> > sending corrections for in the run up to RFC 5661. Comparing a diff of 
> > Chapter 11 in RFC 5661 and Chapter 7 in the 3530bis draft leads me to 
> > conclude that the text in 3530bis was not taken from the final version 
> > of RFC 5661. As a results, it looks like some fixes from the WG and 
> > RFC Editor are missing in the 3530bis version. In the diff below, I've 
> > pulled the missing corrections into the 3530bis git repo's XML source 
> > file for Chapter 7. These changes are mostly just punctuation, missing 
> > words, etc.
> > 
> 
> James,
> 
> It was taken from the final version available in the xml from the old
> http://nfsv4-editor.org/ site. I take that to mean that there were edits
> after draft 25.

Yes, there were some drafts after that one. The IETF website has 
drafts up to 29:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-29

and Mike Eisler's website has drafts after 29:

http://eisler.com/nfsv41/

> This was actually one of the original issues I had to face in 3530bis,
> taking the raw text from 3530 and converting it into xml. And I did
> it to avoid such issues.
> 
> Thanks for detecting this and I'll start to apply your changes.
> 
> Tom
> 
>