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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: iSCSI: Session Partial ResolutionDavid, Would it be reasonable to ask for a "show of hands" on these from the participants on this WG on the two issues? I thought that at least regarding 1, there was some consensus building (or at least a number of people were in favor of) need to avoid the queue full condition etc and to account for the increased latencies of IP networks (without leaving it upto T10 to fix our problems). Somesh -----Original Message----- From: Black_David@emc.com [mailto:Black_David@emc.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 12:22 PM To: hufferd@us.ibm.com; Black_David@emc.com Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu Subject: iSCSI: Session Partial Resolution > Perhaps I am wrong but it seems we are drifting and not focusing on the > search for concurrence regarding Symmetric vs Asymmetric. What is your > view? John's acquiring the prescient talent of causing the co-chair to appear and take action ... as long as he doesn't start calling himself a "wizard" based on these summoning powers, I won't object :-). In any case ... In the past week, I have seen at most one objection to each of the following two proposed points of consensus: (1) An iSCSI session containing a single TCP connection should not be required to use the currently specified iSCSI command reference numbers and sliding window mechanism because TCP will deliver commands in order. (2) Use of more than one TCP connection per iSCSI session is OPTIONAL. Therefore I declare these to be the WG rough consensus on these issues, and the next version of the iSCSI draft should remove the command reference numbers and sliding window mechanism from the iSCSI header. Somesh Gupta's objection to (1) and Matt Wakeley's continued objection to (2) are noted as part of declaring these to be the WG rough consensus. Anyone else who objects to this declaration of rough consensus should email me directly with the reasons for the objection. OTOH, I do not see consensus on the session model for multiple connection sessions among the Asymmetric model, the Symmetric model, and Pierre Labat's proposal. In order to make progress on iSCSI, I see no alternative to separating multi-connection sessions from the main iSCSI spec. Significant effort and email traffic has been invested in this topic for at least 6 weeks and the issue is not settled -- I don't think holding up the iSCSI spec for another 6+ weeks in hopes of settling this issue on the list is an effective way to make progress, but I'm prepared to listen to dissenting opinions (e.g., if someone thinks there is rough consensus, and I've missed it); please send such opinions directly to me rather than using the list. I've already had one offline comment from an outside observer expressing amazement at the willingness of this community to discuss multi-connection sessions "ad nauseum". Therefore, I would ask that the authors of the next version of the iSCSI draft delete all specification of multiple connection sessions from the next version of the except for a note that they will be handled in a separate document. Producing that separate document is going to require an offline design team. The design team can either be chartered to write a compromise session specification or to evaluate competing specifications and choose one. My current inclination is to do the latter, which would involve having the design team produce a set of requirements and guidelines for session specifications in consultation with the co-chairs, evaluate Internet-Drafts documenting the specifications, and recommend an approach to the WG. Comments on this process are solicited - either on the list or to me directly. Further discussion of multi-connection sessions on the list is probably not a good use of list bandwidth. --David --------------------------------------------------- David L. Black, Senior Technologist EMC Corporation, 42 South St., Hopkinton, MA 01748 +1 (508) 435-1000 x75140 FAX: +1 (508) 497-8500 black_david@emc.com Mobile: +1 (978) 394-7754 ---------------------------------------------------
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