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Re: [secdir] [nfsv4] draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-fs-reqts-03

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Wed, 30 September 2009 22:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] [nfsv4] draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-fs-reqts-03
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 06:17:31PM -0400, James Lentini wrote:
> Thank you for your feedback. We will update the document to include 
> the improvements you have suggested both to the security 
> considerations (noting the authorization separation inherent in the 
> design, the resource consumption considerations for NSDB objects, and 
> the implications regarding NSDB authentication) and general 
> description (regarding the absence of junctions in the NSDB and the 
> benefits of using fixed size FSNs).

You're welcome, and thanks for making those changes.

Don't forget to add an explicit requirement for small/compressible FSNs.
It helps the reader of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-fs-protocol understand
the choice of UUIDs for fileset naming.

Nico
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