Re: FCencap: Missing SOF/EOF characters

["Franco Travostino" <travos@nortelnetworks.com>]

Ralph,
why should we be waiting until 5.3 (last page) to break this news (e.g., Class 1 isn't supported)?
Can we move your text up to section 1, aptly titled "Scope". Alternately, we could narrow down the very title of the document.

0.02
-franco

At 07:33 AM 11/1/2001, Ralph Weber wrote:

Off and on I hear complaints that it is not obvious
why draft-ietf-ips-fcencapsulation-03.txt fails to
list all the possible Fibre Channel SOF and EOF
characters in 5.3.

To address this concern, I propose adding the following
text at the end of 5.3.

  Note: Some of the SOF and EOF characters defined by
  Fibre Channel are not listed in Table 1 and Table 2
  because the design an operating characteristics
  of an IP Network make it inappropriate for
  transporting FC Frames containing those SOF and/or
  EOF characters.

I proposed to make this addition in a new draft that
will be available in time for consideration in Salt
Lake.

Comment appreciated.

Ralph Weber

Franco Travostino, Director Content Internetworking Lab
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