On Thursday, August 17, 2006 05:48:41 PM -0400 Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf%mit.edu@localhost> wrote:
I will not sponsor the filexfer draft for publication as an IETF documents. The authors may talk to the applications or transport area about forming a new working group to do the work; may request that the rfc editor publish an informational document as an independent submission; or drop the drafts.
For completeness, I'll point out that another possibility would be to find some other AD to sponsor the document as an individual IETF submission.
I suspect that the set of people likely to be interested in working on a filesystem access protocol is different than the set where were interested in working on the core ssh protocol. So, it's entirely possible that a BOF on this subject may produce enough interest to form a WG.
Personally, I'd very much like to see an actual _file transfer_ protocol that I can run over SSH. Maybe SCP is sufficient for this; I don't know.
-- Jeff