RE: Record-oriented transport

[Black_David@emc.com]

> What has been the word on SCTP (RFC 2960)?  It appears to offer a lot of
the
> record boundary functionality needed for iSCSI/TCP.

The word is "do the TCP encapsulations first", at
least, I believe that is the rough consensus of
the WG.

SCTP is well-done in a number of ways, but appears
to need some time to settle (e.g., its checksum
is in the process of being changed for the better),
for implementations to become more widely available
and for people to get serious about putting SCTP
into hardware.

--David (WG co-chair)

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