RE: iSCSI: changelog ver8 to ver9

[Black_David@emc.com]

Julian,

 

Paul is right because the units aren't sent in the message -

in your example if the meaning of 3 changes from 3 meters to

3 kilometers, the implementation has to be revised to send

0.003 instead of 3.  This is a small change, but it is a change

(not just editorial).  Please add this to the change log for

the next version.

 

Thanks,

--David

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-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Satran [mailto:Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:53 AM
To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: iSCSI: changelog ver8 to ver9

We can debate for ever if 3m are equivalent or not to 0.003km.
If a nuit change breaks your implementation you certainly have to look closer at it.
I won't comment anymore on this noise.

Julo

Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net> 23-01-02 15:59

To:        Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL         cc:        ips@ece.cmu.edu         Subject:        Re: iSCSI: changelog ver8 to ver9

Excerpt of message (sent 22 January 2002) by Julian Satran:
> Prasenjit,
>
> Should I read your statement as a question - i.e., with a why preceding it?
> They where many other editorial changes that are not reflected in the log -
> they have no major
> significance and the change bars in the pdf file reflect them.
> The new units are clearly stated everywhere.

But a change in units is not an editorial change.  Editorial changes
are changes that affect the way things are described but not the way
the implementations are coded.  A change in units is a message
encoding change and requires changes to implementations.

                 paul