Technical Summary
The Network File System (NFS) version 4 is a distributed
filesystem protocol which owes heritage to NFS protocol
version 2, RFC 1094, and version 3, RFC 1813. Unlike earlier
versions, the NFS version 4 protocol supports traditional file
access while integrating support for file locking and the
mount protocol. In addition, support for strong security (and
its negotiation), compound operations, client caching, and
internationalization have been added. Of course, attention
has been applied to making NFS version 4 operate well in an
Internet environment.
This document, together with the companion XDR description
document, RFCNFSv4XDR, replaces RFC 3530 as the definition of
the NFS version 4 protocol.
This document includes updates that address: reported errata,
clarifications related to implementation experience, and
expanded text included from other sources.
Working Group Summary
These documents have been very non-controversial given the
nature of the included errata and the fact that most of the
document updates were drawn from the NFSv4.1 definition.
Document Quality
The quality of this document is very high. There are multiple
implementations of the mandatory features of the protocol and
at least one implementation covering most (if not all)
optional features. The reason for doing the update was to
raise the overall quality through expanded explanatory text
and correcting ambiguities.
Personnel
Document Shepherd is Spencer Shepler (sshepler@microsoft.com).
Responsible Area Director is Martin Stiemerling (martin.stiemerling@neclab.eu)
RFC Editor Note
Please publish draft-ietf-nfsv4-rfc3530bis-dot-x-24 and this draft (draft-ietf-nfsv4-rfc3530bis-35) together with subsequent RFC numbers.