Outboard Tunnel Mode

[VAHUJA@aol.com]

Folks,

May be I missed something in SLC meeting.  I can expect several 
implementations of iSCSI not include any security.Reason - I can see that 
customers would often rely on the company's existing VPNs (outboard Router 
etc) to protect their data (storage or otherwise) over IP networks. From a 
CIO's viewpoint, this approach may make more sense than extending yet another 
layer of IPSec into its servers just for storage data. 

 It is not clear to me from the standard if it will be a non-compliance of 
iSCSI standard. If so, we may potentially have many non-compliances.