RE: a vote for asymmetric connections in a session

[Charles Monia <cmonia@NishanSystems.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hufferd/San Jose/IBM [mailto:hufferd@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 12:20 AM
> To: Joshua Tseng; Charles Monia
> Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: a vote for asymmetric connections in a session
> 
> 
> 
> Joshua, Charles,
> 

<snip...snip>

> With respect to the Asymmetric approach,  the issues change, 
> and we are no
> longer trying to solve the problem of missing commands that 
> occur  because
> of a broken connection.  Therefore, I think we can dump the 
> sliding window
> and leave the flow control -- and recovery  of lost commands, 
>  --  up to
> TCP.  Yes, the SCSI layers on each end need to have their own buffer
> management under control, but I do not think this is a 
> transport issue.
> 
John:

Well put.

While, strictly speaking, the issues I raised are not transport-related (and
may not be perceived as problematic), they may be best addressed (if at all)
with transport layer assists.

Charles