From: Allison Mankin (mankin@isi.edu)
Date: 03/20/01-09:21:09 AM Z
Message-Id: <10103201521.AA05716@maia.east.isi.edu> 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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