RE: iSCSI has already been done before, sort of...

[Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>]

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> 
> I think the question is whether there is a document similar to iSCSI for IPI
> over a network that we could learn from.  My problem with the actual IPI-3
> document is that I believe it is similar in scope to the SCSI documents
> themselves - good at defining the protocol for the traditional storage
> model, but not good at highlighting the changes/issues associated with
> putting it over a network.
> 
> If there was a iIPI (IPI-3 over some network) document(s) out there, then
> that could provide some useful guidance.
> 
> If I am mistaken, and the actual IPI-3 documents provide this level of
> guidance, then it would probably help others to identify the appropriate
> sections, since the document itself is rather large.

I don't believe that there have ever been any public specs in  this area. I
know of a couple of implementations of IPI-3 over both TCP/IP and Hippi raw
framing protocol- but I don't recall that they got to any kind of
standardization level (possibly in the Hippi specs somewhere- I don't have
them handy).

Anybody on the list know anyone from MaxStrat (mass storage for
SuperComputer's company- maybe bought by Sun???? I think they may have also
done this as well.

-matt