Re: Request to create a Dump Tag registry

On 10/12/2022 11:40 PM, Jeffrey E Altman ([email protected]) wrote:
>
> AuriStor has been investigating extending the Dump Stream to support 
> the functionality proposed in April 2011 as RPC Refresh (Gerrit 4573) 
> as well as additional data and metadata types implemented by 
> AuriStorFS. To avoid unnecessary collisions and to maximize 
> interoperability I propose the creation of a Dump Tag Registry.
>
> The Dump Format is poorly documented and many tags and sub-tags have 
> been squatted upon over the years without creation of a registry.
>
The dump stream registry has been created.  It is linked from 
http://registrar.central.org/.

> I will provide additional details of the AuriStor sub-tags to the 
> Registrar once a Registry has been published.
>
The 3 June 2023 draft of the "AFS Dump Stream Format" document that I 
written is available at http://registrar.central.org/dump/dump_format.txt

I will reference this document in my AFS Technology Workshop 
presentation "An Overview of the Dump Stream Framework Adopted by 
OpenAFS and the Dump Tag Registry" on Wednesday 14 June 2023 at 2:20pm 
EDT (UTC-4).

To register for the workshop which will be held virtually via Zoom 
Events (50 USD) the link https://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw23/ 
redirects to https://events.zoom.us/e/view/vqOro4A_RfGeHNSVWD4Yvw

Hope to see you there.

Jeffrey Altman