Subject: RE: proposed text for last call issues04 (transport)

From: "Noveck, Dave" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:19:20 -0700

Scott Bradner wrote:
> note that the AD did not suggest the text as a way to preserve UDP as an option
> (the AD also thinks it should go away) 

> in fact the idea behind the text is to say that UDP is not OK
> while at the same time letting future development be done to
> run NFS over SCTP, which might have some advantges

But I don't understand exactly how it does that, as opposed to
other possiblitities.

If you changed the text to say that if the operating environment
implements TCP, you MUST support V4 over TCP, this would not stop
you from implementing NFS-v4 over SCTP or other transports not
yet dreamt of.  What am I missing?