Re: FCP over IP item on the agenda

["Jon William Toigo" <jtoigo@IntNet.net>]

Apologies to David Black if I misunderstood who had proposed the inclusion
of FCP over IP in the agenda.

I admit that I assumed this based on the message traffic in my email.

I have been covering the IP SAN effort for some time and frequently
encounter FC advocates who turn Fibre Channel vs IP-based SAN discussions
into holy wars.  (I have an interesting email from Tom Lassen that
illustrates the point, if you are interested.) Whatever decision is made
regarding the agenda, I would hope that it advances, rather than slows, the
realization of iSCSI SAN standards and technology.

For what it is worth,

Jon Toigo

----- Original Message -----
From: <Black_David@emc.com>
To: <julian_satran@il.ibm.com>; <jtoigo@IntNet.net>
Cc: <>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 5:37 PM
Subject: RE: FCP over IP item on the agenda


> > In fact I DO NOT WANT FCP to e discussed AT ALL during the limited time
> > we have.
>
> For the record:
> - I have not seen any proposal to discuss FCP or FCP over IP at the
> ips meeting in Pittsburgh.
> - Jon William Toigo's statement that "EMC" "proposed" "a debate or
> discussion of FCP over IP" is simply not true.  I believe that this
> confusion stems from Julian's original misuse of "FCP", which
> has now been repeated in a rather unfortunate fashion.
> Misstatements like this have the potential to cause serious
> problems.  Could everyone please be careful about this sort
> of thing?
>
> > But the new WG chairmenn  David Black (EMC) and Steve Belovin (AT&T)
> > suggested we do on their draft agenda and that generated my answer.
> > I still think it is a very bad idea.
>
> I believe that this is about the following item on the drafty draft
agenda:
>
> Fibre Channel over IP (? tentative ?)
>
> Julian's request to remove it is noted.
>
> Thanks,
> --David
>
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