Re: Protocol Action: iSCSI to Proposed Standard

["Julian Satran" <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com>]

Dear Mr. Braden,

iSCSI is in fact SCSI over TCP.  
As for the noun - the attached is Webster-Collegiate page for transport.
You choose to refer to the definition
#9 . English is a richer language than my Hebrew - we choose
definitions 4 or 5 that seem to fit.



Respectfully yours,
Julo

Bob Braden <braden@ISI.EDU>
Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu

12/02/03 01:48

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cc	ips@ece.cmu.edu, ietf@ietf.org
Subject	Re: Protocol Action: iSCSI to Proposed Standard

  *> 
  *> The IESG has approved publishing the following Internet-Draft
  *> as a Proposed Standard:
  *> 
  *> o iSCSI <draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-20.txt>
  *> 
  *> This document is the product of the IP Storage Working Group.
  *> 
  *> The IESG contact persons are Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner.
  *> 
  *>  
  *> Technical Summary
  *>  
  *>  The Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) is a family
of
  *>  protocols for communicating with I/O devices, especially
storage
  *>  devices. SCSI is a client-server architecture. The SCSI
protocol
  *>  has been mapped over various transports, including Parallel
SCSI,

Transports?

The Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines the noun "transport"
as
"strong and often intensely pleasurable emotion".  ;-)

All the Internet documentation with which I am familiar, as well as the
OSI reference model, define a "transport layer", but I don't
think you
are suggesting SCSI over IP, etc.

Can't we please resist terminology pollution?  In the IETF we call
these
[data] link layers.

Bob Braden

  *>  IPI, IEEE-1394 (firewire) and Fibre Channel. These transports
are
  *>  I/O specific and have limited distance capabilities.
The iSCSI
  *>  protocol defined in draft-ietf-ips-iscsi describes a
means of
  *>  transporting of the SCSI packets over TCP/IP, providing
for an
  *>  interoperable solution which can take advantage of existing
  *>  Internet infrastructure, Internet management facilities
and
  *>  address distance limitations. Mapping over TCP ensures
that the
  *>  high volume storage transfers use congestion control.
  *> 
  *>

transport-def.pdf