Re: Rechartering the NFS Version 4 Workgroup - thoughts request o f comments

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From: Allison Mankin (mankin@isi.edu)
Date: 03/20/01-09:21:09 AM Z


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Subject: Re: Rechartering the NFS Version 4 Workgroup - thoughts request o f comments 
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:21:09 -0500
From: Allison Mankin <mankin@isi.edu>

> How is this all going to work (or not work)?  Do we need two
> separately developed inter-operating implementations of 
> every feature?  For example, as far as I know, everybody's
> method of implementing SPKM3 and LIPKEY is to wait for
> Andy to do it and steal his code (Who said, "Ordinary artists
> borrow.  Great artists steal.").  It doesn't make sense to
> do anything else.  Is this going to be a problem for getting
> to Draft status?

The official position is that the two implementations need to
be genetically distinct, but we don't actually do DNA testing.

We want to know the spec could be understood by more than one
genius, but one could possibly argue (to oneself) that 
integrating the code tested that enough...

Allison


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