RE: iSCSI: ImmediateData negotiation

[David Woolf <djwoolf@io.iol.unh.edu>]

Hello, I've included comments below:

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Dennis Young wrote:

> The following paragraphs in section 4.2 of draft 12
> lead me to believe otherwise:
>   ...
>   The responding party answers with the first value that
>   it supports and is allowed to use for the specfic originator
>   selected from the originator list.
>   ...

I would agree with Kevin here, FirstBurstSize and ImmediateData are
numerical and boolean keys respectively, and the above paragraph does not
apply.

>   An offer of a value not admissible MAY be answered with
>   the constant "Reject".

It looks like theres some confusion about the meaning of the phrase
'not admissible'. I interpreted it to be refering to any value that is
illegal for that type of negotiation. For example, if negotiating
ImmediateData, a key value of ImmediateData=5 would be 'not admissible'.
The phrase 'not admissible' would not apply if the offered value for
the given key was something the device did not support or did not have
the resources for.


>
> My interpretation of the two paragraphs is that the responding
> party can only respond with value offered in the originator list,
> and since "Yes" is not admissible, responding with "Reject"
> seems correct.


thank you,

David Woolf
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