Re: iSCSI: Some proposed vendor-specific (X-) keys

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

Isn't "generic vendor keys" an oxymoron?  My English was never at Orwelian levels - Julo

Ken Sandars <ksandars@eurologic.com> Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu 06/07/2002 01:49 PM Please respond to Ken Sandars

To:        Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>, <pat_thaler@agilent.com>         cc:        <dyoung@rhapsodynetworks.com>, <bmastors@allocity.com>, <ips@ece.cmu.edu>         Subject:        Re: iSCSI: Some proposed vendor-specific (X-) keys

On Thursday 06 June 2002 11:57 pm, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 pat_thaler@agilent.com wrote:
> > Bill,
> >
> > If x-keys are used for this then they should be given proper x-key names:
> > x-reversed.dns_name.key_name
> >
> > It is a bad precedent to ignore domain naming in some of the first
> > x-keys. People wouldn't want the dns name to be a vendor name in this
> > case but perhaps a neutral party such as SNIA or UNH would be willing to
> > have its domain name used for such keys (and they have nice short DNS
> > names).
>
> True. Point taken. Any volinteers?
>

I agree that proper vendor-specific x-keys should use the reverse-dns format 
as stated. However, in this case the proposed keys are generic (for the good 
of all) and I'd hope are consistent.

Can we have a set of "well-known" X-keys which just start "X-"? 

It certainly is a legal format according to the spec. Support of course would 
be completely optional for these.


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Ken Sandars
Eurologic Systems Ltd
ksandars@eurologic.com