Acknowledgements

The SNIA CIFS Documentation is a cooperative effort of the SNIA CIFS Documentation Work Group, bringing together the perspectives of system architects and developers from diverse backgrounds and perspectives in the storage industry. An effort of this scope could only be successful with support from each of the SNIA member organizations that sponsored the individuals contributing their time and knowledge to the creation and review of this document. The SNIA Board of Directors would like to extend its gratitude to this dedicated group of individuals and their sponsoring companies:

Work Group Chairman	Jim Norton, IBM
Co-Author	Bob Mastors, EMC
Co-Author	Byron Deadwiler, Hewlett-Packard
Co-Author	Bob Griswold & Jason Goodman, Microsoft
Co-Author	Christopher R. Hertel, Univ. of Minnesota
Co-Author	Dennis Chapman, Network Appliance
Co-Author	George Colley, Thursby Software Systems
Co-Author	Steve French, IBM
Co-Author	Tamir Ram, Veritas
The companies of the SNIA CIFS Documentation	Work Group reflector: ADIC, AMI, Cereva, CommVault, EMC, Eurologic, HP, IBM, KOM Networks, LSI Logic, Microsoft, Network Appliance, Novell, NSS, Quantum, Samba and Veritas