Technical Summary
This document defines the functional requirements for a
federated file system and defines the related set of terms.
Even though this is a work product of the NFS version 4
working group, the requirements are defined in terms or for
utility with more than just the NFS version 4 protocol.
Working Group Summary
The definition of these requirements have received wide review
within the NFSv4 working group and have contributions from
those with implementation experience; this experience and
review have resulted in a well received document.
Document Quality
The overall document quality is high for this requirements
document. Given that it is intended as an Information RFC,
there is no direct implementation in support of the document
but it has received quality review and input.
Personnel
Spencer Shepler (shepler@storspeed.com) was the Document Shepherd.
Lars Eggert (lars.eggert@nokia.com) reviewed the document for the IESG.