You might take a look at https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/95dec/dec95a3.pdf.
That's for DCE/DFS, not AFS, but it discusses how global namespace
management was done in the DCE/DFS context.
DNS also has AFSDB records, and you could look to find the RFC(s) that
covered those (e.g., RFC 5395)
Hi all,
A bit off topic, but as NFSv4 is implementing cross-server referrals, the
prospect of having a central server that just makes referrals to other
(data-hosting) servers as a sort of global file system namespace has come
up, and I offered to find a reference to use for discussion of the
