Re: iSCSI: v15 issue: iqn. name format inconsistencies

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

Excerpt of message (sent 17 July 2002) by John Hufferd:
> 
> Marjorie,
> I think it is OK to make some of the example changes you have indicated,
> but it is not required to always use the ":"  It depends on the way your
> company manages their sub domain names.   It is still valid to use an all
> dotted name.
> 
> The ":" was needed since a company can hand out subdomains with names like
> "mother" and "mother.wonder" to different departments and therefore it
> would be possible for both departments to create a name like
> "com.ajax.mother.wonder.mydiskarray".  The use of ":" permits the
> departments to make their names unique by placing the ":" following their
> subdomain portions.  That is, they can use the same characters but
> separated with a colon as follows "com.ajax.mother:wonder.mydiskarray" and
> "com.ajax.mother.wonder:mydiskarray".

I would rather have a mandatory colon, rather than have it depend on
some particular organization's naming conventions of the day.

     paul