Re: FCIP: Comment 120

[Ralph Weber <ralphoweber@compuserve.com>]

Slight modifications to the first sentence after Figure 4 (in section
6.4) would seem to suffice for the requirement aspect.

Change:

  The FCIP Entity is the connection interface point for the IP Network 
  and is the owner of the IP Address and Well Known Port used to form 
  TCP Connections.

to:

  The FCIP Entity is the connection interface point for the IP Network 
  and is the sole owner of at least one IP Address and Well Known Port 
  used to form TCP Connections.

The change from "owner" to "sole owner" addresses Mallikarjun's requirement
issue, and the change from "one" to "at least one" addresses the FC-BB-2
text posted by Murali.

A new sentence can be added immediately following the sentence cited
above to address the "why" issue.

Add:

  The TCP Connection establishment algorithms in section 9.1 and FSF usage
  described in section 8.2 assume that TCP connect requests for a given
  FC/FCIP Entity pair are received via uniquely identifiable IP Address
  and Well Known Port.

Thanks.

.Ralph
  

Black_David@emc.com wrote:

>
> > >I also believe that the rough
> > > consensus of the WG is not to change FCIP in this fashion.
> >
> > I am *not* advocating a change.  I am simply concerned that the FCIP
> > text is neither ruling out certain possibilities explicitly,
> > nor defining the
> > architectural hooks to cater to all possibilities.  I'd be
> > perfectly okay with
> > a statement that states that each IP-TCP Address-Port belongs
> > to exactly
> > one Pair (though the text then should ideally say why).
>
> That's a reasonable request that I'm sure the FCIP draft editor
> would be happy to accommodate.  The reason why is probably going
> to be some version of simplicity.
>
> Thanks,
> --David
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