Re: Status summary on multiple connections

[Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>]

John Hufferd/San Jose/IBM wrote:

> I am troubled with the fact that I think many folks have already built
> iSCSI Initiators and Targets that use just one connection per session.
>
> But what about the implementations that are currently in flight.

A couple thoughts on worrying about "implementations in flight".  First off,
the posted version of the iSCSI spec is the first published version, and was
certainly not complete.  No one should be hard coding to that spec.  Especially
in light that David Black has decided that parts of it are to be ripped out
(what if I had been implementing a solution that required multiple TCP
connections or command reference numbers and then you take it away?).  Second,
all the current "implementations" are either (a) proprietary, mostly UDP based
FCP tunneling implementations, or (b) demo projects to demonstrate
feasibility.  I don't think we have to worry about existing "in flight"
implementations based on the first draft.  After a few revs of the document,
that will be a different story...

-Matt