[AFS3-std] advisory "open"/"close" RPC?

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Tuesday, April 15, 2008 03:17:06 PM -0400 Chaskiel M Grundman 
<cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> What's wrong with specifying the problem you want to solve, verifying
> that it is a problem, and proposing a tailored solution?

Exactly so.  Good software engineering, and especially good protocol 
design, involves requirements, architecture, design, implementation, and 
testing, IN THAT ORDER.

Solutions looking for problems are not good protocol design.

-- Jeff