[AFS3-std] October 2012 Status

[Michael Meffie]

Greetings,

This is my first status update to the group as the newly drafted co-chair of
our afs3 standardization group.  Intend on making a brief status post to this
list at the end of each month, summarizing the progress we have made, and
suggesting priorities, as I understand the current consensus.


1. EAKC Presentation

At the EAKC conference on October 17, 2012, in Edinburgh, I gave a general
update on the documents we have produced in this group, and presented goals as
a chair.

Chair Goals

* Significantly better shepherding of documents
* Significantly better at call for consensus
* Clear definition of areas subject to standardization
* Clear definition of work-flows
* Clear reporting of document status and outstanding issues
* Monthly status updates
* Better support for authors; i.e. tools and templates

The slides are available at:

    http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/eakc2012/slides/eakc-2012-afs3-std.pdf



2. AFS3 Stds repository

As announced, the web site for hosting approved documents and related
information is now available on grand.central.org.

    http://afs3-stds.central.org
    /afs/grand.central.org/www/afs3-stds.central.org/
    /afs/grand.central.org/www/afs3-stds.central.org/docs  (approved docs)

A separate status page has been created to track the progress of draft documents;

    http://afs3-stds.central.org/drafts.html

Please direct comments, suggestions, and error reports to me at
mmeffie@sinenomine.net.



3. Active Drafts: rxgk

Simon Wilkinson had made updates to the rxgk draft (post -02), and Ben Kaduk
has been making a number of changes to this document. Work is in progress to
complete revision 03 of this important Internet-Draft.

Everyone interested in AFS3 is encouraged to participate in the review and
discussion on this mailing list. Changes targeted to the 03 version to the 
draft are currently being tracked by Ben in github.

    https://github.com/kaduk/openafs/commits/prot



4. Pending Drafts

The following documents will be scheduled for review, or a timed last call
before advancing to AFS3-stds Experimental status.  At this time I would ask
the group to direct attention to the active rxgk work, before we revive the
pending drafts:


    Integrating rxgk with AFS
    draft-wilkinson-afs3-rxgk-afs

    Base Types for Time in AFS-3
    draft-keiser-afs3-xdr-union

    Extensible XDR Discriminated Union Primitive Type
    draft-keiser-afs3-xdr-union

    Adding a Flexible GetSize RPC Variant to the AFS-3 Volume Service
    draft-deason-afs3-getsizev2

    Data Transmission Over Out-of-Band Alternative Transports for AFS-3
    draft-deason-afs3-oob

    AFS-3 Directory Object Type Definition
    draft-keiser-afs3-directory-object

    Adding Extended Authentication Names to the Bos Super User list
    draft-wilkinson-afs3-bos-identities

    AFS-3 Rx RPC XDR Primitive Type Definitions
    draft-keiser-afs3-xdr-primitive-types

    AFS-3 Protocol Capabilities Query Mechanism
    draft-keiser-afs3-capabilities

    AFS Callback Extensions (Draft 14)
    draft-benjamin-extendedcallbackinfo

    AFS Byte-Range Locking
    draft-mbenjamin-afs-file-locking

    AFSVol Tag-Length-Value Remote Procedure Call Extensions
    draft-tkeiser-afs3-volser-tlv
    Depends on:
       draft-keiser-afs3-xdr-union
       draft-keiser-afs3-capabilities


5. Postponed Drafts

By agreement with the author, work on the following document has been
indefinitely postponed. The document is listed on afs3-stds for archival
purposes.

    Methods of Specifying Restrictions on AFS3 ACLs
    draft-deason-afs3-acl-restrictions



Best regards,
Mike

-- 
Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>