XDR is now a standard!

Wow, it took nearly 20 years, but right from the horse’s mouth (i.e. Mike Eisler):

..today the RFC editor published RFC 4506, the specification for XDR, and it is only fitting to use IETF’s preferred character spacing to note this event. XDR is the data encoding standard for ONC RPC and NFS.

NFS continues its slow and steady path to world domination! What’s funny, of course, is that the draft proposal (RFC 1014) was written in *1987*. The new RFC 4506 is really just about clarifying that yes indeed, XDR does qualify as a Draft Standard. As Mike says, it takes a lot to get an RFC standardized these days!

And yes, the fact that the original RFC was authored by Sun Microsystems and the new RFC was authored by NetApp is just a coincidence. There’s no symbolism there at all. No sir. None. Move along. Nothing to see here.