Re: Request to exclude FC over IP from storage over IP working group charter

[Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>]

Somesh sez:
> I would urge you to not include FC over IP in the charter of
> the SCSI over IP working group.

there is no option for FC over IP to ignore the same set of network
issues that the ips working group will ahev to address - that is the
issues inherent in real-world IP networks, congestion control, 
security, etc.  (I do not see that the security issues are all that
different.)

It would be possible to fire up another working group to replicate 
dealing with those issues for FC over IP  but it does seem like a
significant waste of effort

in addition it seems to me that assuming that the only possible 
FC over IP model is the group-of-devices-behind-a-gateway is
short sighted - I would fully expect that vendors would quickly
move the "gateway" into the drive so that individual drives
could be connected and this looks quite like the rest of the work that
ips is supposed to work on.

scott