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

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, John Hufferd wrote:

> You need to say:
>
> - An optional colon ":"

While I think it'd be better to make the ":" mandatory, to do what you
want I think the text should be '- Either a "." or a ":"' to indicate that
one of the two is needed. :-)

> A colon is optional and not required.  Many organization will not need the
> colon.
>
> And I would recommend
>
> iqn.2001-04.com.acme.storage:diskarrays-sn-a8675309
> iqn.2001-04.com.acme.storage:tape.sys1.xyz
> iqn.2001-04.com.acme.storage.tape:sys1.xyz
> iqn.2001-04.com.small.eng.storage.unit5
>
> In this example the subdomain names that would otherwise conflict are
> "storage" and "storage.tape"
> The company called small has no possible conflicts and everything is
> handled with a "."

Take care,

Bill