RE: FCIP & this list

["Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>]

Ralph,

You appear to be sensitive to the amount of traffic being waged in the iSCSI
battle.  To be fair to David, if you had a filter on your email subjects
looking for iscsi, then even his message would have been redirected.  You
could even positively filter for FCIP.  Two messages a day does not sound
like a heavy burden however to be handled manually.  Perhaps general
announcements could include a list of filter words.

Doug


> David,
>
> To be honest, the following is more than a little
> difficult to accept.
>
> On 17 August 2001, David Black wrote:
>
> > While I'm at it, it appears to me that the FCIP authors
> > are reverting to the unfortunate habit of holding technical
> > discussions off-line and not sharing them with the list.
>
> First, the FCIP authors are posting their works to this
> reflector.  Otherwise, there would have been nothing
> to complain about vis-a-vis the content of the FCIP
> draft on 17 August.
>
> Second, this reflector is clearly the ALL iSCSI ALL THE
> TIME reflector.  In the last 24 hours, no fewer than two
> new postings to this reflector have failed to include the
> project identifier in the subject as requested by John
> Hufferd and myself less than two weeks ago.
>
> And why should people bother to prefix iSCSI postings with
> "iSCSI:" when one of the co-chairs violated the protocol
> as recently as yesterday morning with a posting titled
> "FW: I-D ACTION:draft-black-ips-iscsi-security-01.txt".
>
> The FCIP authors are trying to complete their draft
> under clearly disadvantaged circumstances.  Due diligence
> is being made to bring issues to this reflector and to
> respond to the concerns raised here.  And, I have no
> doubt that the issue raised on 17 August will be addressed
> in due course.
>
> But it is patent nonsense to claim that the FCIP authors
> should be trying to use this reflector in the traditional
> IETF manner.  This reflector belongs to iSCSI, and to all
> practical purposes it belongs ONLY to iSCSI.
>
> FCIP (and for that matter iFCP) are barely tolerated,
> uninvited guests, or at least that is how it feels
> every time I review the directory the day's new messages.
>
> Ralph...
>
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