[Infrastructures] re: vintela

[Heilke, Rainer]

> I'm curious about Steve's comments about OpenAFS instead of 
> NFS, especially
> as it relates to SOX.  I don't recall SOX really caring about 
> how you access
> the data, but maybe the security aspect of it is what could come back.
> We're audited against SOX yearly, but it rarely comes down to 
> my level with
> an 'action'.

I'm a little curious myself, although I'm a Canuck, so SOX is of only
peripheral impact. But, we have our own legislature that is moving
further in this direction. If memory serves, NFSv4 is addressing various
security aspects of the general NFS (v3) protocol. Would this, perhaps,
be another direction one could take? Admittedly, only Sun's Solaris 10
has it yet (I think they are back-porting it to earlier versions of
Solaris), but I can't see it taking too long to spread to other OSes.

Just askin'.

Rainer