iFCP - FCIP merge proposal

["Julian Satran" <julian_satran@hotmail.com>]

Dear colleagues,

At yesterdays IPS WG meeting and had no chance to clarify my proposal 
regarding a merger of FCIP and iFCP into a single effort.

iFCP attempt to provide an IP interconnect for FCP devices. It has also the 
capabilty to interconnect FC islands.

FCIP has the narrower scope of connecting only FC islands - admittedly even 
FC devices other then FCP.

Given that FCP devices where the main concern of this WG and that iFCP 
serves a wider purpose than FCIP and will enable not only tunneling but also 
migration of FCP devices to IP infrastructure my intention was to suggest 
that iFCP should attempt to incorporate those FCIP functions it does not 
care about today and those two groups should work towards one common draft 
that should cover not only tunneling but also device migration to IP 
networks.

Julo
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