Re: IPS Draft Charter update

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

"Mark A. Carlson" wrote:
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> As far as this working group is concerned, the standards might take the form of
> signaled service level objectives (requesting a certain performance goal, for example)
> to the storage device or perhaps a protocol for negotiation of the service level.
> Service level metrics, such as performance, availability and perhaps even cost
> might be exposed through a storage MIB.

This seems very strange to me - why would any of this be specific to
storage? These sound like quite generic QOS issues. They are also very
tough ones, that the IETF has not yet got a handle on.

See draft-iab-qos-01.txt for more on what is missing in this area.

   Brian