RE: iscsi: iSCSI Boot -- Informational or Standards track

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 Black_David@emc.com wrote:

> [WG chair hat on]
>
> Folks,
>
> Having just had to explain how/why fiddling with formats for
> the DHCP Root Path option could cause interoperability problems,
> I'm inclined to send have the boot draft go standards track in
> order to specify that when the "iscsi:" prefix is used for the
> DHCP Root Path option to support booting via iSCSI, then the format
> defined in the boot draft MUST be used.  At the moment, I think use
> of RFC 2119 imperatives (e.g., MUST) would be limited to Section 4
> of the boot draft where this format is defined, but I think the
> interoperability issue recently discussed on this list merits
> using those imperatives.  Section 1 of the boot draft is about
> requirements on booting mechanisms for iSCSI and hence does
> not appear to warrant RFC 2119 imperatives.

Sounds appropriate.

Take care,

Bill