Re: FCencap: Missing SOF/EOF characters

["Franco Travostino" <travos@nortelnetworks.com>]

At 12:54 PM 11/6/2001, Ralph Weber wrote:
>   "This document
> describes common mechanisms for the transport
>   of Fibre Channel frames over an IP network within the
> limitations
>   of service provided by an IP network. The topics described 
> in
>   this document include the encapsulation format and a
> mechanism
>   for enforcing the Fibre Channel frame lifetime
> limits."

This proposed text comes a tad closer, but it's cryptic still. 

> I am NOT willing to
> discuss Fibre Channel Classes in the draft
> because to do so would require adding a definition of the term.
> Fibre Channel Classes are not discussed in the draft as it is
> currently written.

I agree that a definition/discussion would be way inappropriate here. A
T11 citation should do the trick instead. We already have a sentence like
"The format and content of an FC frame is described in
the FC standards (e.g., FC-FS [3], FC-SW-2 [4], and FC-PI [5])." I
don't see a problem with writing  "Scope is limited to FC Class
2 and 3,  which are described in the FC standard ([x]), and then
adding [x] and the authoritative T11 document to Section 7 References.
This direct and simple.

-franco


> Ralph...
>
> Franco Travostino wrote:
>
> > Ralph,
> > why should we be waiting until 5.3 (last page) to break this news
> (e.g., Class 1 isn't supported)?
> > Can we move your text up to section 1, aptly titled
> "Scope". Alternately, we could narrow down the very title of
> the document.
> >
> > 0.02
> > -franco