profiles - a way to simplify iSCSI

[julian_satran@il.ibm.com]

Dear colleagues,

iSCSI keeps getting richer in negotiable parameters/features.
Although flexibility is a great thing every new negotiable
parameter/feature get us all worrying about:

   what it will break when used in combination with other
   parameters/features
   how are we going to test that all our combinations work as we think that
   they are specified
   are we understanding/specifying the combinations the same way as anybody
   else


I assume that many of you are wondering, as I do, if all this flexibility
is really worth it's price.
Would the community not be better served by specifying profiles that are a
complete-and-invariable combination of features and very small set of
numerical parameters?

I would start with 2 profiles:

   the minimal profile (only basic features)
   the maximum profile (all the features)

and then (only if we are strongly convinced it is needed) add a middle
point.

Please comment,
Julo