Re: IPS and SCTP

["Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org>]

David,

Thanks for the tips.  I think that it should be possible
to release a draft before the Atlanta meeting.  Can I bounce
preliminary drafts off of you?

--brian

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Black_David@emc.com wrote:

> Brian,
> 
> > Sure.  Perhaps a start would be (for me) to write an
> > individual submission extension draft for running, say,
> > iSCSI over SCTP.  Would that be of interest to this WG?
> > What would be the best timing for such a submission?
> 
> I can't speak for the WG as a whole, but that sounds like
> a reasonable course of action to me.  Getting a first
> version of your draft submitted far enough in advance
> of the Atlanta meetings so that people will have time to read
> and consider it (i.e., well before the "just prior to the
> deadline" draft deluge) ought to allow the WG the opportunity
> to decide whether to make it an official work item in Atlanta.
> 
> A few iSCSI over SCTP things to start with:
> - Header digests can be eliminated since SCTP now uses CRC32C,
> 	and should result in a visible simplification of error
> 	recovery.
> - Unless SCTP has changed to allow load balancing as part of
> 	its multi-homing/failover support, iSCSI sessions will
> 	need to support multiple SCTP sessions per connection
> 	for load balancing.
> - SCTP's ability to avoid head-of-line blocking should be useful
> 	when immediate delivery of iSCSI commands is requested.
> 
> Enjoy,
> --David
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