Re: profiles - a way to simplify iSCSI

[Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>]

We've been thinking about how to profile iSCSI implementations
as well, and Paul Congdon, Matthew Burbridge (both of HP) and
I have come up with a spreadsheet that sort of follows the PICS
pro-forma that the IEEE folks use.  Anyway, it appears that this
might be a useful thing to start discussing.  We have attempted
to list the major mandatory and optional features, but have not
had enough review time yet to guarantee that it exactly matches
the spec, so comments are welcome.

Julian has placed it on his web page at:

http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/satran/ips/iSCSIv6_PICs-5.pdf

I apologize that this is not in internet-draft form, or if this
list is not exactly the right place to do this.  However, I think
that it will help show the sheer number of optional features we
are faced with, and may help us prioritize what must stay in the
protocol, and what we could live without in the interest of
simplicity.

Hopefully, this will help.

--
Mark



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Mark A. Bakke
Cisco Systems
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