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Re: [nfsv4] FW: New Version Notification for draft-faibish-nfsv4-pnfs-block-disk-protection-01.txt

Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> Thu, 07 July 2011 22:51 UTC

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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:23:11 -0400
From: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Subject: Re: [nfsv4] FW: New Version Notification for draft-faibish-nfsv4-pnfs-block-disk-protection-01.txt
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Nico Williams wrote:

  On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> wrote:
  > Benny Halevy wrote:
  >  On 2011-07-07 19:34, david.black@emc.com wrote:
  >  > What's the problem with use of GPT?
  >
  >  There is no formal standard for it as far as I see
  >
  > Isn't it part of UEFI?  Which may be problematical if it requires a license,
  > but would still be a published standard.
  
  Standards-Track RFCs can (and many do) have normative references to
  non-Internet standards, even non-free standards (ASN.1 specs used to
  be non-free in the sense that one had to pay to get a copy).

Agreed.  I meant problematical for the implementor, not for the spec writer
(I count myself among the former).

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