Re: [nfsv4] rfc5666bis and rpcrdma-bidirection progress update

[David Noveck <[e-mail]>]

So the review process will not be interrupted.  It will continue at the
same pace as before.

With regard to the characterization of the process as "excruciatingly
sluggish", it does seem that not very much has happened since the working
group reached consensus on  this document on 4/17/2016 (according to the
data tracker history).

However, to be fair, we should note that draft-ietf-nfsv4-rfc5666bis-00 was
submitted on 12/01/2015 and it it took the working group less than a year
to get to the point we are.    It looks likely to me that the whole process
will (cross your fingers) be completed in around 16 months from first
submission.   It is hard to get documents done faster than that within the
IETF process, which is not optimized for speed.

Contrast that with RFC5666 itself which took over five years from -00
submission to RFC publication.  Despite the slow pace of the process, it
appears that the document did not get the kind of review it needed before
publication, making rfc5666bis necessary. I'd like to thank the authors for
persevering in the effort to provide NFS with an RDMA-based transport.

If we want to improve the process, and I believe we should, we need to
focus on review quality/adequacy as well as the pace of the process.