Re: patent question

[Greg Finn <finn@ISI.EDU>]

Work on iSCSI was underway in 1997 in my ARPA project and perhaps
earlier.  Open publication of the idea of a SCSI net interface was
published in a 1996 conference proceedings by our project and probably
by others earlier.

Specific patent claims of course I have no knowledge of.  A general
claim would fall afoul of obvious-to-the-field by 1998.  iSCSI has
already been a common and openly debated topic and iSCSI overhead work
had already been published.