Re: TargetAlias/InitiatorAlias text commands

["Julian Satran" <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com>]

Marjorie & Jim,

This artifact (the Alias keys) where introduced at the express request of
the NDT.
Why don't you come (came) with a similar consensus recommendation to remove
them
and resort to the IPS list at large?   Is this the NDT consensus and you
have just forgot to mention it?

Julo


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"Jim Hafner" <hafner@almaden.ibm.com> on 25-07-2001 00:03:35

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Marj,

I concur.  I don't see any value in these keys either, at least within the
protocol.

Jim Hafner


"KRUEGER,MARJORIE (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <marjorie_krueger@hp.com>@ece.cmu.edu
on 07-24-2001 01:38:35 PM

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Subject:  TargetAlias/InitiatorAlias text commands



As outlined in David Black's consensus statement on the SendTargets command
(http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/mailinglists/ips/mail/msg05119.html), the target
records returned in response to a SendTargets request will not include
TargetAlias, in response to the expressed desire to limit the SendTargets
functionality to the basic description of the target iSCSI device.

There are references to "aliases" sprinkled throughout the iSCSI protocol
document, but this construct doesn't add any value to the iSCSI protocol
model or functionality.

Since the TargetAlias and InitiatorAlias text commands do not contribute
any
functionality to the iSCSI protocol, are not used in any iSCSI-related
logic
within an implementation, and are basicly a "label" more appropriately
administered by a management tool, I propose they be removed from the iSCSI
protocol spec.

Comments?

Marjorie Krueger
Networked Storage Architecture
Networked Storage Solutions Org.
Hewlett-Packard
tel: +1 916 785 2656
fax: +1 916 785 0391
email: marjorie_krueger@hp.com









"KRUEGER,MARJORIE (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <marjorie_krueger@hp.com> on
24-07-2001 23:38:35

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      <marjorie_krueger@hp.com>

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Subject:  TargetAlias/InitiatorAlias text commands





As outlined in David Black's consensus statement on the SendTargets command
(http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/mailinglists/ips/mail/msg05119.html), the target
records returned in response to a SendTargets request will not include
TargetAlias, in response to the expressed desire to limit the SendTargets
functionality to the basic description of the target iSCSI device.

There are references to "aliases" sprinkled throughout the iSCSI protocol
document, but this construct doesn't add any value to the iSCSI protocol
model or functionality.

Since the TargetAlias and InitiatorAlias text commands do not contribute
any
functionality to the iSCSI protocol, are not used in any iSCSI-related
logic
within an implementation, and are basicly a "label" more appropriately
administered by a management tool, I propose they be removed from the iSCSI
protocol spec.

Comments?

Marjorie Krueger
Networked Storage Architecture
Networked Storage Solutions Org.
Hewlett-Packard
tel: +1 916 785 2656
fax: +1 916 785 0391
email: marjorie_krueger@hp.com