RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-reqmts-03.txt

["KRUEGER,MARJORIE (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <marjorie_krueger@hp.com>]

> On page 18,
>  "The iSCSI protocol document SHOULD NOT define the management
>   architecture for iSCSI within the network infrastructure."
> 
>  What does this mean?
> 
> I think it means that the iSCSI protocol document SHOULD NOT 
> define the
> management architecture.  The management architecture may be 
> defined within
> in a separate document.
> 
> I do not understand the phrase 'within network infrastructure.'

My tendency to want to distill a concept into the most concise, least wordy
expression has perhaps left *this* concept too meagerly defined. :-)

"management architecture within a network infrastructure" refers to the
concept that iSCSI will be yet another resource service within a complex
environment of network resources (printers, file servers, NAS, application
servers, etc).  There will certainly be efforts to design how the "block
storage service" that iSCSI devices provide will be integrated into a
comprehensive, shared model, network management environment.  A "network
administrator" (or "storage administrator") will desire to have integrated
applications for assigning user names, resource names, etc. and indicating
access rights.  iSCSI devices presumably will want to interact with these
integrated network management applications.  The iSCSI protocol document
will not attempt to solve that set of problems, or specify means for devices
to provide management agents.  In fact, there should be no mention of MIBs
or any other means of managing iSCSI devices as explicit references in the
iSCSI protocol document, because MIBs and management descriptions and
protocols change with the needs of the environment and the business models
of the management applications.

Marj