RE: iSCSI Data Integrity - Digests

["Y P Cheng" <ycheng@advansys.com>]

> The continual assertion that TCP implementations are sacrosanct and thus
> not cannot be modified to support iSCSI combined with a tendency to make
> everything an option should someone object quite frankly leads one to
> question whether iSCSI will suffer the same 10-year growing pains /
> interoperability problems FC suffered and thus seriously raises a
> question of its viability within the industry.

Mike, if iSCSI is deployed through the use of an adapter which collapses all
three layers, SCSI, iSCSI, and TCP, into a single set of microcode, then,
you got a new implementation of TCP anyway.  All those sacrosanct talks that
forbid changes of TCP implementations do not apply to an iSCSI adapter which
at login time will exchange text parameters with each other to deploy new
TCP options.  Everything you wanted can be inside an iSCSI adapter.
However, the right place to talk about what you want from TCP is in the
end2end group, not here, as so many people repeatedly pointed out to me. :-)

Y.P.