About the idea of layering iSCSI on VI on TCP

[Ralph Weber <ralphoweber@compuserve.com>]

Forgive me if I've read the recent reflector traffic incorrectly,
but it appears that the idea is being floated of layering iSCSI
on VI on TCP.  Based on what I know about the activities of the
SCSI standards community as the secretary for T10 and the project 
editor for SAM-2 and SPC-2 (SCSI Primary Commands) I'm wondering
if iSCSI would be needed in such a protocol stack.

T10 already has a project to layer SCSI on VI, it's call SVP 
or SCSI VI Protocol.  The project editor for SVP is Ed Gardner 
(Gardner@acm.org) and the project has a draft standard document
available at: ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/drafts/svp/svp-r01.pdf

Recent SVP status report documents are available at:

  ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/document.99/99-316r1.pdf
  ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/document.00/00-172r0.pdf
  ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/document.00/00-240r0.pdf
  ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/document.00/00-278r0.pdf

This list is ordered by date from older to newer documents.

As far as I can tell, should the IPS WG decide to pursue
enabling SCSI over IP via definition of a VI protocol for
TCP, then that one document would be the only document
needed as the protocol stack would be SVP on VI on TCP.
Effectively, the proposed use of iSCSI would be replaced 
by SVP.

Thanks.

Ralph...

P.S. I am aware of the IETF policy to use plain text files
and therefore apologize for the pointers to PDF files.  However,
the T10 policy is to use PDF files so there's no other choice.