Re: Announce: January 2005 OpenAFS for Windows status report

ted creedon wrote:

> Is there any intellectual property being created? If so is it being
> protected?
> 
> It appears that the proposed improvements are superior to Microsoft's
> filesystems.
> 
> Tedc

Thank you.  We are trying hard to make AFS be a highly functional
distributed file system for all operating systems.  I do not believe
that we are producing any intellectual property which is intended to
be patented.  We will be working within the IETF to standardize the
functionality necessary to implement RXGK.

The concept of multi-stream files have existed in a variety of forms 
including the Macintosh Resource Fork, OS/2 Extended Attributes, and 
NTFS streams.

The algorithms for performing normalized internationalized strings come 
from the IETF and the Unicode Consortium.

Most of the other work is just implementing things which Microsoft has 
published specs for or the Samba team has reverse engineered.  The hard 
work is simply putting it all together.

Jeffrey Altman