Re: Nit in Naming & Discovery doc

[Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>]

Mark-

Thanks for catching this one.  I'll fix it during the
Authors' 48 Hours.

To use underscores in the alias, they would have to be
escaped, similar to a URL.

--
Mark

"Mark S. Edwards" wrote:
> 
> Appendix A of the Naming & Discovery draft 9 provides an example iqn of:
> 
>     iqn.2001-04.com.example:diskarray.sn.8675309.oracle_db_1
> 
> This has been interpreted by some avidly reading developers that
> underscores are valid characters in an iqn.  In turn this causes problems
> if you try and present this to SLP as an attribute.
> 
> The iSCSI document is explicit in not listing the underscore as a valid
> character and obviously this document takes precedence.
> 
> Can we please change the above example in the Naming & Discovery document
> for the next iteration ?
> 
> Interestingly enough, there are no rules about the allowable characters for
> an alias.  But SLP will also barf if an alias name contains an underscore
> character.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark.

-- 
Mark A. Bakke
Cisco Systems
mbakke@cisco.com
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