Re: iSCSI Boot: Technical Issues

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

>>>>> "Prasenjit" == Prasenjit Sarkar <psarkar@almaden.ibm.com> writes:

 Prasenjit> 1. Looks like there is no opposition to making this a
 Prasenjit> standard draft.  2. After talking to an HCI person in IBM,
 Prasenjit> I have the following proposal:

 Prasenjit> We can change the LUN format to be xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx

 Prasenjit> This notation is subtantially better than
 Prasenjit> "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" in terms of HCI errors and is almost
 Prasenjit> equivalent to a 16-bit format representation.

 Prasenjit> Since most of the numbers are going to be zeros, all we
 Prasenjit> need to do is to edit 1 set of "xxxx".

I don't see why human factors questions appear in discussions about
protocols. 

If you want the UI to be nice, put a nice UI on the application that
generates the protocol.  I see no reason to make the protocol encoding
itself user-friendly.

       paul