RE: Symmetric vs Asymmetric

[Black_David@emc.com]

> Since I have seen no one else that made arguments for the Symmetric
> implementation, you maybe able to call the agreement on the Asymmetric
> approach a consensus.

While I appreciate the invitation, I'm going to hold off on doing that.
The current state of the discussion doesn't feel like consensus (rough
or otherwise) to me yet, and it seems to me that there have been
people other than John advocating the Symmetric model.

I do want to kill off a red herring that found its way into the discussion.
Squeezing additional bandwidth out of a single network link (HTTP-style)
has not been an important motivation for multiple connections.  The aims
of multiple connections have been to use parallelism in the network for
failover and load balancing.  A few weeks ago, there was rough consensus
that use of multiple connections to squeeze additional bandwidth out of 
single network would not be a requirement on iSCSI, and I haven't seen
anything that leads me to believe that this consensus has changed.

Progress is being made -- carry on ...

--David

---------------------------------------------------
David L. Black, Senior Technologist
EMC Corporation, 42 South St., Hopkinton, MA  01748
+1 (508) 435-1000 x75140     FAX: +1 (508) 497-8500
black_david@emc.com       Mobile: +1 (978) 394-7754
---------------------------------------------------