Re: Updating the NBD assignment at IANA
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 03:37:22PM +0200, Lars Rohwedder wrote:
>
> >- For the "Assignee", I would like to ask them to mention this
> > mailinglist.
> > […]
> >- I'll leave the contact as is for now. RFC6335 mentions "The Contact
> > person is the responsible person for the Internet community to send
> > questions to. This person is also authorized to submit changes on
> > behalf of the Assignee; in cases of conflict between the Assignee and
> > the Contact, the Assignee decisions take precedence," which to me
> > reads like a person is required (and I'm happy to continue filling
> > this role).
> That means: The "Assignee" (the ML) has precedence over decisions
> made by the "Contact" (you).
>
> 🤔
>
> >- For the description, I would like to drop the "Linux" part in the
> > description. There are implementations of NBD that are wholly
> > unrelated to Linux, and so I don't think it's entirely accurate
> > anymore to refer to NBD as a "Linux" protocol.
>
> ACK.
>
> I am curious: Are there other OS (BSD flavours?) that uses NBD at
> the client side? If yes, they should be mentioned in the NBD's
> readme, I'd suggest.
If you extend "OS" to include userspace implementations, then qemu,
libnbd and nbdkit work as clients and servers on the BSDs.
Rich.
> >- At the time, there was no public reference for the NBD protocol yet; I
> > plan to add the link to proto.md on github as the official reference.
> >
> >Thoughts?
>
> Go for it! :-)
>
> Lars R.
>
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