Re: iSCSI 4.1 & 4.2

[Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>]

Julian-

The specification is at

http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-string-prep-00.txt

It would be better to reference the specification rather than attempt
to add the individual characters to iSCSI; the point
of the separate specification is to leverage the same work that
the IDN folks are doing.

--
Mark


Julian Satran wrote:
> 
> Please send me a list of the characters to add or a specification for them. Julo
> 
>   Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>
>   Sent by: mbakke@cisco.com                   To:        Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL
>                                               cc:        ips@ece.cmu.edu
>   05/01/2002 09:40 PM                         Subject:        Re: iSCSI 4.1 & 4.2
>   Please respond to Mark Bakke
> 
> 
> Julian-
> 
> Sorry, I've been unavailable the last few days.  What do you mean
> about the note not being concrete?  The string-prep draft says
> exactly which additional characters we need for the name-value
> (all of the international lower-case equivalent characters
> are valid), and the utf8-value specifies that any UTF-8
> character is legal (other than \0).
> 
> Without adding these, we would have to ditch internationalization
> completely within iSCSI names, but since the DNS folks are going
> through the pain of internationalizing host and domain names, we
> should keep internationalization in iSCSI as well.
> 
> --
> Mark
> 
> Julian Satran wrote:
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > John Hufferd has solicited twice input from NDT about their additional requirement.
> > I did not hear back from you.
> > The attached note does not say anything concrete (are some characters that you need missing?)
> > either.
> >
> > Julo
> >
> >   Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>
> >   Sent by: mbakke@cisco.com                   To:        Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL
> >                                               cc:        ips@ece.cmu.edu
> >   05/01/2002 08:52 PM                         Subject:        Re: iSCSI 4.1 & 4.2
> >   Please respond to Mark Bakke
> >
> >
> > Julian-
> >
> > Text-value is also used for initiator names, target names,
> > and aliases, which are UTF-8 encoded, so they don't fit into
> > the current text-value definition.   Here are two more
> > text value types we should add.
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> >
> > Julian Satran wrote:
> > >
> > > text-value: a string defined by the regular expression
> > > "[][a-zA-Z0-9.-+@_/\[\]=]*"
> >
> > Used by InitiatorName and TargetName:
> >
> > name-value: a UTF-8 string, with its valid character set
> > defined in draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-string-prep-00.
> >
> > Used by InitiatorAlias and TargetAlias:
> >
> > utf8-value: any UTF-8 string, terminated by a null character,
> > Ranges and comma-separated lists are not allowed for keys
> > that use this type.
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> 
> --
> Mark A. Bakke
> Cisco Systems
> mbakke@cisco.com
> 763.398.1054

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Mark A. Bakke
Cisco Systems
mbakke@cisco.com
763.398.1054