RE: iSCSI: Login Request error

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Martins Krikis wrote:

> Pat, Luben,
>
> I think we're fighting an uphill battle here...
>
> I've been complaining about some of the same
> things, and, as Luben said, nobody cared. I get
> the feeling that there is a bigger wish to get the
> draft "out" despite the ambiguities and problems in
> both the negotiation protocol and its description,
> than to change a single thing "this late".

I hope there isn't. If we let out a sucky protocol, we're stuck with it.

> I think there is also an assumption (that I don't
> hold) that having choices in the negotiation
> protocol allows more freedom to implementations
> and thus simplifies them.

I agree with you; let's make things explicit. It does make things easier.
:-)

> Luben was asking whether EBNF would be used
> if submitted. I personally doubt it, since
> perfectly reasonable regular expressions were
> dropped.
>
> And there is probably little point asking the
> phylosophical questions. I still don't see the
> value of Irrelevant, allowing Reject-ed keys
> to be renegotiated, allowing not Reject-ing
> "inadmissible" values, allowing omission of
> boolean values, base64 for anything but binary
> strings, and many other "features". But I'll
> probably receive email telling me to "move on"
> just for mentioning this stuff here again...

Well, I'm not trying to tell you to move on. :-)

We agree about base64 - it's great for binary strings, but not numbers.

I'm not sure about renegotiating REJECTED keys. I think it'd depend on
what the likely reasons for rejection are, and how likely they will be
different the second time.

I guess irrelevant makes sense for things like negotiating marker spacing
when you don't support markers.

> Or the best explanation will be "we talked about
> it here, but nobody objected too strongly".
>
> Anyway, I'm behind you in your efforts and looks
> like I should resume some of my own battles
> (no-renegotiation rule unclear).

:-)

Take care,

Bill