[nfsv4] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-ietf-nfsv4-rpcrdma-version-two-03.txt

[Chuck Lever <[e-mail]>]

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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Network File System Version 4 WG of the IETF.
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>        Title           : RPC-over-RDMA Version 2 Protocol
>        Authors         : Charles Lever
>                          David Noveck
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-nfsv4-rpcrdma-version-two-03.txt
> 	Pages           : 88
> 	Date            : 2020-08-10
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> Abstract:
>   This document specifies the second version of a transport protocol
>   that conveys Remote Procedure Call (RPC) messages using Remote Direct
>   Memory Access (RDMA).  This version of the protocol is extensible.
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> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nfsv4-rpcrdma-version-two/
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> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-rpcrdma-version-two-03
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> A diff from the previous version is available at:
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This revision makes significant changes to the document and protocol:

- Replace deprecated iWARP terminology with references to RDMAP, DDP, and MPA
- Re-organize the discussion of "XDR Encoding with Chunks"
- Update the discussion of reverse-direction operation
- Fix errors in the XDR definition
- Split up the RDMA2_MSG and RDMA2_NOMSG header types, and introduce a Call chunk
- Document all these changes in Appendix C

In addition to deep prototyping, there are still a handful of areas that
still need work; for example, "Host Authentication".

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Chuck Lever