In a slight departure, file and directory names are encoded with UTF-8 to deal with the basics of internationalization.

For example, without previous contact with a server a client will be able to read data from a file in one request by combining LOOKUP, OPEN, and READ operations in a single COMPOUND RPC.

To meet end-to-end security requirements, the RPCSEC_GSS framework (both version 1 in [RFC2203] and version 2 in [RFC5403]) will be used to extend the basic RPC security.