I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ips-fcovertcpip-00.txt

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	Title		: Fibre Channel Over TCP/IP (FCIP)
	Author(s)	: M. Rajagopal, R. Bhagwat et al.
	Filename	: draft-ietf-ips-fcovertcpip-00.txt
	Pages		: 21
	Date		: 31-Oct-00
	
Fibre Channel (FC) is a dominant technology  used  in  Storage Area
Networks (SAN).  The purpose of this draft is to specify a standard
standard way of encapsulating FC frames over TCP/IP and to describe
mechanisms that allow islands of FC SANs to be interconnected  over
IP-based  networks.  FC  over  TCP/IP  relies  on IP-based  network
services to provide the connectivity  between the SAN  islands over
LANs, MANs, or WANs.  The FC  over TCP/IP specification relies upon
TCP for congestion  control and management and upon both TCP and FC
for data error  and data loss recovery.  FC over TCP/IP  treats all
classes of FC frames the same -- as datagrams.

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