iSCSI: Urgent and Framing

[Black_David@emc.com]

The Urgent discussion has passed the point where it's
time for your WG co-chair to say something about consensus.
Needless to say, we don't have consensus, and will have to
discuss this further in San Diego ...

... and now for something completely different*.

The Transport Area Directors have asked to have the ips WG
agenda in San Diego include an overview and discussion of
both the framing problem(s) and possible solutions.  Aside
from noting that the iSCSI Urgent mechanism is a proposed
solution to one form of the framing problem, I'd prefer
to leave complete definition and explanation of the various
forms of the framing problem to this session.

The primary goal of this session in San Diego is to make sure
that the framing requirements/needs/desires of the ips WG's
protocols are well understood.  People who would like to discuss
the Urgent mechanism between now and the San Diego meeting
should keep in mind that we are going to take up the framing
problem(s) from first principles there.  The currently proposed
Urgent mechanism is not the only solution, as a number of other
possibilities will be discussed.  More information will become
available in the near future (e.g., when we get the San Diego
agenda published in the next few days).

In addition, a summary of the iSCSI Urgent mechanism has been
posted to the end2end mailing list for comments from that
community.  

*Yes, that is a Monty Python reference ;-).

Thanks in advance for everyone's patience with this,
--David

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