Re: TCP RDMA option to accelerate NFS, CIFS, SCSI, etc.

[Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@metabyte.com>]

> > 1) Given that the first paragraph says section 10 of rfc2026 is irrelevant,
> > under what conditions is the document published?
> 
> actually, since it has not shown up in the Internet Drafts directory it 
> has not been published in the sense that it could be the topic
> of a work item in an IETF working group
> 
> so, while the topic may be interesting I'd suggest that it be ignored
> in the contect of an IPS BOF (and note that when published it will not
> say that 2026 is "irrelevant" cuz if it does it will not get published)
> 
> Scott

Very well, but what about its companion document (SCOT)?
 http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-satran-scot-00.txt
It is published, isn't it? It was somewhat disturbing to see the
notice, but on the other hand it was honest. IBM could just as
easily come up silently with a silly software patent for RDMA option
or for SCSI over TCP idea as such.

--Pete