// owner: @richabanker
	// alpha: v1.28
	//
	// Proxies client to an apiserver capable of serving the request in the event of version skew.
	UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy featuregate.Feature = "UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy"

	// owner: @rata, @giuseppe
	// kep: https://kep.k8s.io/127
	// alpha: v1.25
	// beta: v1.30
	//

	case context.Canceled, context.DeadlineExceeded:
		w.WriteHeader(499)
	default:
		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusForbidden)
	}
	w.Write([]byte(err.Error()))
}

// DefaultSkewTime - skew time is 15 minutes between minio peers.
const DefaultSkewTime = 15 * time.Minute

// Authenticates storage client's requests and validates for skewed time.
func storageServerRequestValidate(r *http.Request) error {

than the version of `kubeadm` (N-3). This aligns with the recent change made by SIG Architecture that extends the support skew between the control plane and kubelets. Tolerate this new kubelet skew for the commands `init`, `join` and `upgrade`. Note that if the `kubeadm` user applies a control plane version that is older than the `kubeadm` version (N-1 maximum) then the skew between the kubelet and control plane would become a maximum of N-2. ([#120825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120825),...

	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	currTime := UTCNow()
	signature, err := signStreamingRequest(req, accessKey, secretKey, currTime)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	// skew the time between the chunk signature calculation and seed signature.
	currTime = currTime.Add(1 * time.Second)
	req, err = assembleStreamingChunks(req, body, chunkSize, secretKey, signature, currTime)
	return req, err
}

- Support for proxying a request to a peer kube-apiserver if the local apiserver is not able to serve it due to version skew or in the case the requested api is disabled on the local apiserver ([#117740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117740), [@Richabanker](https://github.com/Richabanker)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Cloud Provider, Network, Node and...