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    RE: iSCSI: DLB's [T.6] 2.3 iSCSI Session Types



    Julian,
    
    I stated in my e-mail that I do not want to reopen this issue at this stage.
    Leaving it the way it is in draft-14 is perfectly acceptable. Changing "MAY"
    to "MUST" with the text per David's last e-mail is also acceptable.
    
    -Ayman
    
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Julian Satran [mailto:Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com]
    > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:37 PM
    > To: Ayman Ghanem
    > Cc: Black_David@emc.com; ips@ece.cmu.edu; owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu
    > Subject: RE: iSCSI: DLB's [T.6] 2.3 iSCSI Session Types
    > Importance: High
    >
    >
    >
    > This was subject to a long debate relate to SendTargets.
    > The issue was that SendTargets was (with resistance) accepted as a
    > "lightweight" discovery.
    > We did not want in any way to encourage long-lived discovery sessions as
    > there are other and better mechanisms
    > to do so (SLP, iSNS) and iSCSI should not have a completely embedded
    > discovery (going to IP storage
    > should enable you to leverage other protocols for management).
    > I will strongly oppose anything that encourages long lived discovery and I
    > think that using the last call to reopen
    > without any new argument an old and closed issue is an abuse of the
    > process.
    >
    > Julo
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >                       "Ayman Ghanem"
    >
    >                       <aghanem@cisco.co        To:
    > <Black_David@emc.com>, <ips@ece.cmu.edu>
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    > iSCSI: DLB's [T.6] 2.3  iSCSI Session Types
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    >                       owner-ips@ece.cmu
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    >                       07/08/2002 06:53
    >
    >                       PM
    >
    >                       Please respond to
    >
    >                       "Ayman Ghanem"
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    > David,
    >
    > The issue that came up before was if a discovery session could be kept
    > open,
    > why not allow the initiator and target to send NOPs, and allow the target
    > to
    > send Async messages when new targets become available?
    >
    > I don't mean to bring up this issue again at this stage, but using "MAY"
    > leaves room for implementations that want to support this. If we allow NOP
    > and Async PDUs on a discovery session, then changing "MAY" to "MUST" will
    > be
    > fine.
    >
    > -Ayman
    >
    >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: Black_David@emc.com [mailto:Black_David@emc.com]
    > > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 9:19 AM
    > > To: aghanem@cisco.com; ips@ece.cmu.edu
    > > Subject: RE: iSCSI: DLB's [T.6] 2.3 iSCSI Session Types
    > >
    > >
    > > Ayman,
    > >
    > > Something needs to be cleaned up here, as the current text appears
    > > to allow all types of iSCSI PDUs on a discovery session.  I didn't
    > > intend to restrict a discovery session to one Send Targets followed
    > > by a logout (i.e., it could be kept open with the initiator periodically
    > > sending a new Send Targets to see if anything has changed), but I
    > > did intend to forbid SCSI commands, task management, etc. on Discovery
    > > sessions.  Is that reasonable, or are there additional types of iSCSI
    > > PDUs that you want to see allowed for new device notifications?
    > >
    > > Thanks,
    > > --David
    > >
    > > > -----Original Message-----
    > > > From: Ayman Ghanem [mailto:aghanem@cisco.com]
    > > > Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 12:41 PM
    > > > To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
    > > > Subject: RE: iSCSI: DLB's [T.6] 2.3 iSCSI Session Types
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > I prefer leaving this as "MAY" for implementations that want
    > > > to support new
    > > > device notifications. There was a discussion on whether
    > > > discovery sessions
    > > > should be long-lived or not. Using MAY allows both without
    > > > breaking any
    > > > thing.
    > > >
    > > > -Ayman
    > > >
    > > > > [T.6] 2.3  iSCSI Session Types
    > > > >
    > > > >       b)  Discovery-session - a session opened only for
    > > > target discov-
    > > > >       ery; the target MAY accept only text requests with
    > > > the SendTar-
    > > > >       gets key and a logout request with reason "close the session".
    > > > >
    > > > > Change "MAY" to "MUST", and say that other requests MUST be
    > > > rejected.
    > > > >
    > > >
    > >
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