iSCSI NAA naming: next steps

[Black_David@emc.com]

Everyone,

After attending the T10 meetings during the week before
Vienna, it looks like T10 is going to adopt text string
names for SCSI devices without requiring them as the
only format.  The current T10 proposal, which will
be taken up again by T10 in September in Seattle, is:

http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/document.02/02-419r5.pdf

Ignore the fact that the document page header says r4
- it is r5, as the author appears to have overlooked
forgot to change that number when revising the document.

On this basis, it makes sense to proceed with NAA naming
for iSCSI, draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-name-ext-00.txt .

As WG co-chair, I request the authors of the NAA naming
draft to coordinate that draft with George Penokie, the
author of T10/02-419.  Given T10's propensity to edit
proposals, an r6 version of T10/02-419 is likely to result
from T10's September meetings, so the plan for the IPS
WG will be to start a WG Last Call in mid-September
on a version of the iSCSI name-ext draft that is consistent
with what T10 adopts in their Seattle meetings, on the
(optimistic) assumption that T10 will adopt some version
of 02-419 in Seattle in September.

Also, the iSCSI name-ext draft authors are the right people
to review T10/02-419 to see if it has any implications
for or inconsistencies with the approved version (-20)
of iSCSI.  I would ask that they perform that review and
report to the WG in the next several weeks so that if
any changes are required in T10/02-419, we can get them
made in Seattle in September.

Thanks,
--David

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