Re: iSCSI: Towards Urgent Pointer Consensus

[David Robinson <david.robinson@EBay.Sun.COM>]

Douglas Otis wrote:
> Without at least an outline as how an API is to work which benefits from the
> use of the Urgent Pointer Record Marking scheme, it is difficult to properly
> discuss relative merits.  We can all imagine such an interface can be
> created, but until details are roughly specified for the API to at least
> proximal levels found in TCP or SCSI, then again, I think it is premature to
> spend effort discussing this imagined mechanism.

Again, I think URG will fail for other technical reasons, but defining
an API to use it is not rocket science. Given that I am not very
supportive
of the use of URG I am not going to was the 15 minutes it will take to
define an API.

If you want to defeat URG, use technical arguments like Randall has been
doing.  Please don't go down misguided argument path about APIs.

	-David