RE: iSCSI sessions: Step 2

[meth@il.ibm.com]

Steve,
Actually, even though I put forward some of the ideas in the asymmetric
model, I don't either have a strong feeling for one model over the other.
In the design team discussions before Pittsburgh, we were wrestling with
the issues of ordered delivery, and I put forward my proposal to solve some
of the problems that came up in our discussions. Each of the proposals has
advantages and disadvantages. I think either proposal is good enough, if
only we could agree to choose one of them.

- Kalman Meth




Stephen Byan <Stephen.Byan@quantum.com> on 05/10/2000 15:57:24

Please respond to Stephen Byan <Stephen.Byan@quantum.com>

To:   ips@ece.cmu.edu
cc:    (bcc: Kalman Meth/Haifa/IBM)
Subject:  RE: iSCSI sessions: Step 2




Black_David@emc.com [mailto:Black_David@emc.com] wrote:

> Now comes the hard part - Symmetric vs. modified
> Pure Symmetric (modified by [5] above).  There are
> over 1000 email messages in my mailbox for the ips
> mailing list for the past two months, and I freely
> admit to not having reviewed them in detail.  I suggested
> in the "Let's try again" email that more weight should
> be given to those working on implementations, especially
> hardware, and have not seen any objections to that
> suggestion.  My impression is that the opinion of such
> people has been in favor of the Symmetric model -
> Matt Wakeley (Agilent), and Somesh Gupta (HP) come
> to mind as examples.  I'm not confident that this is
> the WG consensus, but it appears to me that the
> WG is headed in that direction.  Please comment on
> this - the absence of comments/objections will be
> taken as a sign of agreement.

I've been neutral on this issue for quite some time. Perhaps others are
also
neutral, which may lead to the appearance of a lack of concensus.

I'm biased toward symmetric sessions by personal aethestic opinion, as the
design feels cleaner, but I do not have any objective technical arguments
against asymmetric sessions. I think either can be made to work. As far as
I'm concerned, I'd accept the results of a coin-toss.

Regards,
-Steve

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