IP Storage (ips) Working Group Atlanta Minutes - November 18, 2002 ----------------------------------- -- Agenda Bashing and Status of Drafts - David L. Black, EMC (WG co-chair) Most drafts are not on the agenda because they are in or beyond WG Last Call. Last four WG drafts are in WG Last Call which will end on December 9. See "status of drafts" file for detailed status of all drafts. WG members should review draft-ietf-dhc-isnsoption-03.txt ASAP as it will be jointly Last Called in the IPS and DHC WGs in the near future - send comments to the IPS list. The WG has accomplished a great deal of work (4 major protocols, plus ancillary documents, including 7 MIBs) in about 2 years, and the Technical Coordinators received a round of applause for their efforts to ensure that everything else (especially MIBs) was completed at about the same time as the main protocols. -- SCSI MIB - Roger Cummings, Veritas draft-ietf-ips-scsi-mib-04.txt SCSI MIB is in WG Last Call. Some additional T10 document references need to be added. The request made on the list to add some counter64 elements will not be done because it is not in keeping with IETF guidelines for appropriate use of counter64 (based on how fast a counter32 element rolls over). -- DHC config of SNMP trap config for iSCSI boot failure - Mark Bakke, Cisco draft-bakke-dhc-snmp-trap-01.txt This is a string format DHCP option to report boot failure. Will most likely go forward in DHC WG. Rationale, requirements, scenarios are ok to discuss on IPS list, but details will be on DHC and appropriate SNMP lists. Discussion in DHC earlier the same day was that there is definitely a problem here that needs to be addressed, but there were some open issues about how much of the problem to take on initially and details of how to go about it. General sense of the room is that this is something worth working on. -- NAA naming format for iSCSI - Mallikarjun Chadalapaka, HP draft-krueger-iscsi-name-ext-00.txt Proposal for a new "naa." naming format in addition to "iqn." and "eui.". Motivated in part by a T10 proposal (02-419r0), but described as having value on its own for multi-protocol devices (i.e. implementing SCSI over more than one transport). David Black put up a T11 document (01-630v0) describing NAA (WWN) to EUI mapping for some NAA formats. About 1/4 of the room understands the issues here, and among that 1/4 there is clear rough consensus for carrying this proposal forward in appropriate coordination with T10. Co-chairs and ADs will consult off line about how to do this, and will also ensure that current text in iSCSI -19 that prohibits adding a naming format is appropriately changed/weakened to allow this, but the resulting text will set a high criterion for future additions to meet. -- Future of WG Discussion - WG co-chairs, and Allison Mankin, Transport AD WG has completed a lot of work and is close to done. The Transport ADs like WGs that set out to do something, do it and shut down, so IPS WG will probably shut down in near future. Mailing list will remain alive, and the above NAA draft may be progressed solely via mailing list. Progression of any of IPS's protocols to Draft Standard requires interoperability reports on which work could start now, but the WG co-chairs are adamant that the main protocol documents will not be re-opened for general revisions prior to 2004 at the earliest, although bug fixes and the like can be done in the interim if/as necessary.