Re: Proposed announcement to rest of IETF

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

Costa, without requirements analysis you will not get anywhere in the IETF.

The way you have phrased it rings lots of alarm bells  -  it reads as if you are
trying to set up SCSI/TCP as an architectural competitor or replacement for 
NFS etc, but that is absolutely not the case. That's why the requirements analysis 
is the first step.

  Brian

Costa Sapuntzakis wrote:
> 
> > 3. I think it is very odd to refer to SCSI as if it is a protocol
> > at the same level as NFS, CIFS (which is proprietary), and AFS and DFS
> > that you don't mention. SCSI is in a completely different class, but you
> > only half-say this. You will get a lot of flak over this in the IETF,
> 
> I agree that if feels odd at first to see SCSI referred to in the
> same sentence as NFS. However, once both are travelling over the network,
> they're not all that different, except that SCSI has a simpler model
> of sharing.
> 
> I can access a disk as one large NFS file and it will look a lot like
> SCSI.
> 
> > and you don't at all mention the requirements analysis that will
> > need to be Phase One.
> 
> I don't think everybody agrees that requirements analysis is phase one.
> 
> -Costa