Re: iSCSI: Some proposed vendor-specific (X-) keys

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Mastors <bmastors@allocity.com> writes:

 Bob> I like it.  Otherwise the user has to configure the initiator
 Bob> with the target type and the target with the initiator type.  It
 Bob> is unlikely that this problem will disappear for a long time if
 Bob> ever.  As the threads on the C bit has shown there will be lots
 Bob> of ways to implement the spec and probably no device will
 Bob> correctly support all possibilities.  I am already putting "if
 Bob> (vendor)" code in my implementation. Maybe in a few years I will
 Bob> not need it. But until then it would be nice if I could
 Bob> dynamically determine vendor information for iscsi so the user
 Bob> does not have to configure it. 

Oh boy, now I'm well and truly frightened.

I read your message as saying that there isn't going to be
interoperability for several years.  Sorather than create a serious
incentive for implementers to fix their defects, we should implement a
way to have them report which collection of defects they implement so
we can invoke workaround collection #42.  Of course, the larger the
collection of crocks we work around, the larger the number of bugs in
implementations that everyone else will have to work around.

In the words of a well known American, "Just Say NO".

     paul