[nfsv4] Working group recharter

[David Noveck <[e-mail]>]

We discussed this at the working group meeting at IETF99.  In the meeting
materials you can find:

   - Ietf99CharterDiscuss which are the slides I presented about the effort.
   - Ietf99CharterMateials which had the latest draft charter and milestone
   proposals, both converted to a powerpoint form.

With regard to the draft charter there were only very minor changes made,
which are reflected in the attached file NearFinalCharterDraft.

I'd like people to look at the current draft and send mail to the list
about any issues they see.  Even though there was broad agreement
at the working group meeting, I don't think we can consider this draft as
final yet.  I think people who were not able to be in Prague or to
participate remotely given the meeting time (starting at 00:30 Pacific and
03:30 Eastern) should have the opportunity to comment before
we go forward on a re-charter effort.  I think a week is a reasonable time
so please offer any comments by 7/30.  In my presentation to the
working group, I stressed that we were looking for agreement on the basic
message and that minor corrections could wait.  Because we seem
to have  reached that basic agreement, I'd like everyone think about any
worthwhile correction they might offer, whether they attended the
working group meeting or not.

With regard to the milestones, things are a little further off.  There is
only one milestone in the current draft.  While there is no minimum number,
we would like to have more.  David  Black suggested that
one-milestone-per-working-document was a good model, which makes sense.
The only
problem is that if you look at our current list of working group documents,
we seems to have a temporary shortage.

If you look at our current seven working group documents:

   - Three are past WGLC and waiting for various stages of IESG handling,
   which leaves them out as milestone candidates.  Creating milestones fr
   these would essentially be giving the IESG milestones and they might not
   like that.  The drafts in question are rfc5667bis, xattrs, and umask.
   - Two drafts, flex-file and layout-types., are now in a WGLC scheduled
   to end 8/11. which makes milestones for these kind of pointless.
   - The remaining draft, migration issues is the one that has an
   associated milestone.

I expect that, in the next several weeks we will be considering adding some
working group documents.  I'd like to ask those who will be making
proposals in this regard to give some thought to likely milestones and let
me know so I can update the draft milestones.  It's important to note
that Spencer D has indicated that such milestones will not be set in
stone.  We are looking for people's best estimates, which can be revised
if unanticipated issues arise.