Re: [nfsv4] Agenda items for virtual interim

[David Noveck <[e-mail]>]

Just wanted to let everyone know that I will put together an agenda for the
interim meeting tomorrow, so if anyone does want to add an agenda item,
please let me know soon.

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 9:28 AM David Noveck <[e-mail]> wrote:

>  I need to provide a real agenda for our virtual interim meeting and so
> I'm primarily turning to the Usual Suspects to help but would like to hear
> from anyone in the working group who has an idea for something to discuss.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing from Chuck about his thoughts about
> addressing use of RPC-with-TLS for NFSv3 and how that might or might not
> interact with the v4 security work now going on.
>
> I also want to hear from Tom T about a number of RDMA-related topics:
>
>    - His 'push-mode" work.
>    - Possible approaches to a secure RDMA protocol taking advantage of
>    either TLS or Quic.
>
> There has been some discussion on the mailing list concerning a missing
> error in ALLOCATE.  Tom H has said he doesn't know how hard it would be to
> fix that and I don't know either. I'd like Tom's help in finding out.  It
> used to be that you could simply create a new document obsoleting the
> previous one with the fix.   Not much work but a lot of patience required.
>  Lately the IESG has taken to insisting on bis documents in situations like
> this, which I feel is inappropriate for v4.2 which is a bunch of unrelated
> optional features.  I think we need to discuss this issue and make the case
> that any bis would have to be for a specific v4.2 feature rather than for
> v4.2 as a whole.  I'd like this discussion to happen at a wg meeting so we
> can get Zahed's input, especially since, if we convince him, he will wind
> up having to make the case to the IESG.  Tom, could you lead a discussion
> on this issue?
>
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