Internationalization for the NFSv4 Protocols
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NFSv4                                                          D. Noveck
Internet-Draft                                                    NetApp
Updates: 5661, 7530 (if approved)                          March 9, 2020
Intended status: Standards Track
Expires: September 10, 2020

              Internationalization for the NFSv4 Protocols
              draft-dnoveck-nfsv4-internationalization-01

Abstract

   This document describes the handling of internationalization for all
   NFSv4 protocols, including NFSv4.0, NFSv4.1, NFSv4.2 and extensions
   thereof, and future minor versions.

   It updates RFC7530 and RFC5661.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Requirements Language Definition  . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.2.  Requirements Language Derivation  . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.  Limitations on Internationalization-Related Processing in the
       NFSv4 Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   5.  Summary of Server Behavior Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   6.  String Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   7.  Normalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   8.  String Types with Processing Defined by Other Internet Areas   12
     8.1.  Effect of IDNA Changes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     8.2.  Potential Compatibility Issues Related to IDNA Changes  .  15
   9.  Errors Related to UTF-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
   10. Servers That Accept File Component Names That Are Not Valid
       UTF-8 Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
   11. Future Minor Versions and Extensions  . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
   12. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
   13. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
   14. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
     14.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
     14.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
   Appendix A.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23

1.  Introduction

   Internationalization is a complex topic with its own set of
   terminology (see [19]).  The topic is made more complex for the NFSv4
   protocols by the tangled history described in Section 3.  This
   document is based on the actual behavior of NFSv4 client and server
   implementations (for all existing minor versions) and is intended to
   serve as a basis for further implementations to be developed that can
   interact with existing implementations as well as those to be
   developed in the future.

   Note that the behaviors on which this document are based are each
   demonstrated by a combination of an NFSv4 server implementation
   proper and a server-side physical file system.  It is common for
   servers and physical file systems to be configurable as to the
   behavior shown.  In the discussion below, each configuration that
   shows different behavior is considered separately.

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