FCIP: Minutes of 10/17 FCIP Authors teleconference

["Elizabeth Rodriguez" <egrodriguez@lucent.com>]

Minutes from last week's FCIP author's call.

Elizabeth

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Minutes of FCIP Authors teleconference
10/17/01

1. Security
	Bob raised the issue that compliance requirements are made in
both
the FCIP draft
	as well as the security framework draft, although the security
draft
is intended to
	be an informational RFC. Not clear what happens if the two start
to
get out of sync.
	In addition, requirements on the same function in different
drafts
is not desirable. Is it
	even legal to put compliance requirements (MUST, etc) in a
non-standards-track RFC?
	Issue also applies to iSCSI and iFCP.

	Bob to send note on issue to IPS reflector.

2. NAPT
	Solution documented by Ralph was discussed. Two issues were
brought
up:
	how to address the ships-in-the-night behavior when two TCP
connect
requests
	between 2 FCIP Entities cross each other, and how to make one
end of
the FCIP Link
	aware of who is at the other hand in terms of its
WWN+FCIP-identifier identity. Larry
	suggested a bi-directional Short Frame exchange instead of the
current proposed
	unidirectional one, allowing each end to learn about the other,
to
solve the latter.
	Anil believes this may help to address the ships-in-the-night
problem.
	Bob feels that this is better solved at a lower layer, and that
bidirectional SF exchange
	could introduce problems.

	Larry as well as Bob to send out mail detailing the incremental
changes and potential
	issues, respectively.

	Another area of discussion was the need for more than one FCIP
Link
between two
	FCIP Entities. Some discussion around why this should be allowed
for
FCIP, just as it is
	allowed for FC. Milan and Bob feel that there is a need to
accomodate this behavior (while
	also allowing a single link with multiple TCP connections).

	Ralph to add front matter to clarify context of solution in the
presence of NAPT gateways
	in the next draft. Further discussion of solution and choices by
email, final solution to be
	agreed by next week.

Attendees:
Ralph Weber
Jim Nelson
Vi Chau
Milan Merhar
Anil Rijhsinghani
Raj Bhagwat
Dave Peterson
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Bob Snively
Bill Creek
Don Fraser
Venkat Rangan
Larry Lamers
Andy Helland