Improved access and good performance on the Internet

• Improved access and good performance on the Internet

• • Protocol designed to transit firewalls easily, perform well where latency is high and bandwidth is low, and scale to very large numbers of clients per server.

• Strong security with negotiation built into the protocol

• • Builds on the work of the ONCRPC working group in supporting the RPCSEC_GSS protocol. Additionally, the NFS version 4 protocol provides a mechanism to allow clients and servers the ability to negotiate security and require clients and servers to support a minimal set of security schemes.

• Good cross-platform interoperability

• • Features a filesystem model providing a useful, common set of features that does not unduly favor one filesystem or operating system

• Designed for protocol extensions

• • The protocol is designed to accept standard extensions that do not compromise backward compatibility.