Re: FC over IP: Requirements

[David Robinson <David.Robinson@EBay.Sun.COM>]

Elizabeth,
It is good to see you making progress on the FC over IP requirements.
As there is now another draft that is FC over IP (with SCTP as
the transport) published, is it possible that we can merge the
two efforts?  I would not like to see as a result one protocol
to tunnel between two FC clouds and another to direct attach
FC to IP.

Possible considerations are if there are mechanisms to adapt
one or the other draft to allow a merging? Are the transport level
retry mechanisms you discuss also going to be fundemental problems
with the SCTP proposal as well? If you do use TCP as a transport
will your solutions to congestion control etc be sufficient to
remove the need for SCTP? I would not like to see two groups
trying to solve the same problem independantly.

	-David