RE: Agenda suggestion

["Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>]

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From: Black_David@emc.com [mailto:Black_David@emc.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 3:28 PM
To: dotis@sanlight.net; ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: RE: Agenda suggestion

>- Adoption of VI probably affects the choice/design
>of security solutions, but the first priority is to
>get to consensus on security requirements.  Does
>whether to adopt an RDMA framework and/or which one
>really have a dramatic effect on security requirements?
>
>- 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.

Doug