Re: Submission of draft under the IPS working group

[julian_satran@il.ibm.com]

Marjorie & Randy,

Nice work.

Several comments:

- initiator on a well known port - this is against common practice and will
make life difficult for large servers that connect to a multiplicity of
targets using one address and several ports. Firewalls and proxies know how
to handle this (there are things like protocol headers to look into and
statefull inspection) and those who don't better learn how to do it.  You
may want to remove this.

- TCP is a "well respected" protocol  - I learn new English every day on
this list - until now I thought that respected is a word reserved for gods
and humans :)- THIS LINE IS a joke

- connection bundling - the document should be updated to the current
consensus that connection bundling MUST be supported by the protocol
specification as an OPTIONAL feature

- framing is important but it is a bit overstated in the document (for my
taste). I would suggest to recommend finding an acceptable framing
technique but not mandating it

- US-Exportable... although I understand the concern IETF is an
international organization

"KRUEGER,MARJORIE (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <marjorie_krueger@hp.com> on
18/11/2000 00:33:35

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Subject:  Submission of draft under the IPS working group




Attached is the updated draft of the Requirements Document for the iSCSI
protocol under the IPS working group.

Marjorie Krueger
Networked Storage Architecture
Hewlett-Packard Storage Organization
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