AFS3 Standardization Group

About Us

The AFS3 Standardization Group defines network protocols and other standards related to the AFS3 protocol family. The AFS assigned numbers registry is used to track various protocol constants to promote interoperablity. We have operated under a Provisional Charter by community consensus since August 3, 2010. Our work is done primarily on the afs3-standardization mailing list. Participation is open to all interested parties.

Current chairs are:

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Documents

Section 2.3.3 of our provisional charter describes three document states:

Draft
Documents in this state are works in progress, and are published and distributed as Internet-Drafts. A list of currently active drafts can be found here.
Experimental
Documents in this state are generally complete specifications which represent the consensus of the standardization group and which the group considers ready for implementation and testing. Advancement to this state requires consensus of the group, as determined by the chairs following a formal last call on the mailing list.
Standard
Documents in this state are considered reasonably mature and ready for general deployment. Before a document can advance to this state, it must first reach the "experimenal" state, and there must be at least one successful implementation of all of the protocol elements defined within the document. Advancement then requires consensus of the group, as determined by the chairs following a formal last call on the mailing list.

Documents which have advanced to Experimental or Standard status, and generally accepted process documents, are listed here:

Status Document Formats
(Process) Options for AFS Standardisation txt html xml
Experimental Authentication Name Mapping extension for AFS-3 Protection Service txt html pdf xml
Experimental rxgk: GSSAPI based security class for RX txt html xml

An up-to-date list of work in progress documents can be found here.