RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ips-fcovertcpip-00.txt

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

It is unfortunate, the IPS workgroup's first draft modifies the PSH flag in
TCP as an entree into developing transport.  Too bad RFC 2960 was not
considered a viable alternative to modification of TCP.

Doug

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> 	Title		: Fibre Channel Over TCP/IP (FCIP)
> 	Author(s)	: M. Rajagopal, R. Bhagwat et al.
> 	Filename	: draft-ietf-ips-fcovertcpip-00.txt
> 	Pages		: 21
> 	Date		: 31-Oct-00
>
> Fibre Channel (FC) is a dominant technology  used  in  Storage Area
> Networks (SAN).  The purpose of this draft is to specify a standard
> standard way of encapsulating FC frames over TCP/IP and to describe
> mechanisms that allow islands of FC SANs to be interconnected  over
> IP-based  networks.  FC  over  TCP/IP  relies  on IP-based  network
> services to provide the connectivity  between the SAN  islands over
> LANs, MANs, or WANs.  The FC  over TCP/IP specification relies upon
> TCP for congestion  control and management and upon both TCP and FC
> for data error  and data loss recovery.  FC over TCP/IP  treats all
> classes of FC frames the same -- as datagrams.
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