RE: Agenda suggestion

[Black_David@emc.com]

> >- It is unfortunately the case that the underlying
> >VI/TCP draft that Costa referenced is off-limits
> >for discussion in the meeting due to missing the
> >submission deadline two weeks prior to the meeting.
> 
> Some type of VI approach such as the RDMA (or VI modeled after Giganet
CLAN
> product) has always been included within iSCSI discussions.  I have never
> heard it excluded, from the I/O Server convention to even most recently by
> the author, although a contentious point within the specification.  I did
> not partake in the telephone conferences, so I may have been excluded from
> those decisions to exclude it.  Declare fait accompli without knowing the
> architecture and related security issues?  All the more reason to let
those
> with experience speak.

Oh, good grief ... that's simply not true -- no decision has been made to
exclude the VI approach, and in fact it is not being excluded.  Costa's
draft is on the agenda, providing an opportunity to discuss the VI
approach in general, and I've even suggested a way to acquire
more time to do so than the 2.5 min currently on the agenda.

The only thing that is being excluded is discussion of the GigaNet VI/TCP
draft *at the Pittsburgh meeting* because it was not submitted by the cutoff
date for submissions.  This rule is necessary to avoid last minute
submissions
of important documents in a fashion that makes it impossible for attendees
to review them sufficiently in advance.  The GigaNet VI/TCP draft can be
discussed on the mailing list at any time (although waiting until after the
meeting might be a good idea), and at any meeting after Pittsburgh,
assuming that it does get submitted in time for such a meeting.

--David

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