Re: [nfsv4] Last call for NSDB Protocol for Federated Filesystems (Oct 4 - Oct 22nd)

[Nicolas Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 12:19:22PM -0500, Everhart, Craig wrote:
> IANA is more than capable of discerning semantic overlap between
> candidates for registration and the existing registrants.  Probably
> they're more than capable of discerning such overlap between multiple
> candidates.

I don't agree.  IANA is good at following simple, clear rules.  For
anything more elaborate you need to require Expert Review or stronger
review.

> Creating yet another registry feels like a big hammer, but perhaps it's
> the way to go.

IANA registries are cheap (to us, WG participants anyways).

I'd rather use LDAP schema for this than an LDAP attribute with
key/value pairs as values.  We might be able to get a sub-namespace of
LDAP attribute/class names (all those starting with "fedFs", say) to
have different rules than LDAP as a whole, if the WG feels that strongly
about preventing semantic overlap.

> I don't know why machines would have problems skipping whitespace.
> Postel's Law would suggest it.

What's that got to do with anything?

Nico
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