Re: iSCSI Version Info: Version 1 and not 0

[Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>]

Joe is correct; all of the commercial vendors adopted the stance
that draft 8 is "good enough" to ship in a product, and that no
other drafts will be supported until the RFC.  Our products can
distinguish between draft 8 and the RFC; this is very simple.

This process has gone on long enough.  Trying to change anything
now (including a version number) will only make it take longer,
and what we have works just fine.

Besides, didn't David send an email saying it's version 0; end
of discussion?

--
Mark


Joe Gervais wrote:
> 
> This has wasted far too much bandwidth, but as one of the few vendors
> that shipped pre-standard iSCSI products, as vendors we all stopped
> shipping commercial products at draft 8. I've not seen any vendor that
> tried to ship anything commercial other than draft 8 in the past year.
> Everything else has been betas, interoperability experiments, and other
> pre-product prototypes. Seems like version 0 is distinguishable from
> draft 8, so there shouldn't be any product issues with using version 0
> to represent a RFC compliant version. Sure, someone may have one of
> these other draft versions kicking around in a lab, but in the real
> commercial world, it's going to be a non-issue.
> 
> Joe Gervais
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Mark A. Bakke
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