FCIP: draft-weber-fcip-encaps-00.txt

[Ralph Weber <ralphoweber@compuserve.com>]

An internet draft titled " FCIP Frame Encapsulation Enhancement
Proposals" is available at:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-weber-fcip-encaps-00.txt

The abstract is as follows:

   This draft is for consideration by the FCIP team in the IPS working
   group.  Improvements to Fibre Channel Over TCP/IP (FCIP) [2] frame
   encapsulation mechanisms are proposed.  The objectives of the
   improvements are two fold: increasing the reliability of Fibre
   Channel frame detection, and assisting with the handling of Fibre
   Channel E_D_TOV and R_A_TOV time-out processing.

Since the ID was submitted a technical error was discovered in
section 3.2, Time Stamp, it says that the integer word in the
time stamp is "the time in seconds relative to the epoch,
00:00:00 January 1,1990."  This is a transcription from the
T11 proposal on which the usage of this time format is based
(01-052v0).

However, 01-052v0 is based on SNTP (RFC 2030) and RFC 2030 says
that the base epoch is "00:00:00 January 1,1900", that is 1900
not 1990.

I have been informed that 01-052v0 did not intend to revise
RFC 2030 and that the encapsulation proposal should use 1900
not 1990.

FYI

Ralph Weber
representing
Brocade Communications