Re: Protocol Action: iSCSI to Proposed Standard

[RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>]

On Wednesday, Feb 12, 2003, at 13:24 America/Montreal, Mallikarjun C. 
wrote:

>> All the Internet documentation with which I am familiar, as well as 
>> the
>
> I think we have a case of overlapping vocabulary from two different 
> domains.
>
> Per SCSI Architecture Model (SAM-2, SAM-3), iSCSI is very clearly
> a "SCSI transport protocol" (as opposed to a SCSI application layer 
> protocol).
> Parallel SCSI, Fibre Channel etc. are all "SCSI transports" per SCSI 
> conventions.
> That is all the critiqued abstract is trying to describe.

In the context of an *Internet* RFC, it seems sensible to use the normal
Internet terminology -- unless one very very clearly indicates that a
term is being used in some different semantic.  One might postulate that
the document's editors and RFC-Editor could work out a mutually 
agreeable
editorial change here to add clarity.

Ran