RE: iSCSI-related conclusions from Orlando interim Meeting

[Black_David@emc.com]

It's a bit cryptic.  The conclusion in the room was
to convert binary values to/from text representations
for the purpose of negotiation (and use UTF-8 for the
text).  This was felt to be simpler than defining new
formats for binary values.  

--David

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Robinson [SMTP:David.Robinson@EBay.Sun.COM]
> Sent:	Friday, January 19, 2001 7:47 PM
> To:	ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject:	Re: iSCSI-related conclusions from Orlando interim Meeting
> 
> > (5) Naming
> >         - UTF-8 will be used instead of ASCII for text strings in iSCSI
> > login and
> >                 text commands, naming, discovery, etc.
> >         - Binary values will be encoded in UTF-8 rather than adding
> > type/length support.
> 
> What does this mean? UTF-8 is an encoding of Unicode character sets, not
> arbitrary
> binary values. It is still just binary data so what
> possible advantage is this?
> 
> 	-David