Re: Moved to Historic: RFC 5047 on DA: Datamover Architecture for the Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)

Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net> Thu, 26 March 2020 02:50 UTC

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From: Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net>
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
Cc: rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Moved to Historic: RFC 5047 on DA: Datamover Architecture for the Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:50:52 -0500
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It took a bit to find it, but there was a Last Call:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/lijeNVjkekVJNawP_QfoOJAxqrU

It would probably be useful to put RFC numbers in the Subject: of the 
Last Call instead of just the document title.

pr

On 25 Mar 2020, at 21:27, John C Klensin wrote:

> I am not questioning the decision to move this document to
> Historic, but I don't remember seeing a Last Call announcement
> and there does not appear to be anything in the datatracker
> about this RFC since its approval and publication in 2007.
>
> My understanding has been that the RFC Editor stopped moving
> IETF Stream documents to Historic on its own initiative many
> years ago.  Was there a Last Call?  If this was done as an IESG
> executive decision, where is the decision and the motivation for
> doing it with this document at this time, documented?
>
> thanks,
>    john
>
>
> --On Wednesday, March 25, 2020 18:41 -0700
> rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org wrote:
>
>> RFC 5047 has been reclassified as Historic.
>>
>>
>>         RFC 5047
>>
>>         Title:      DA: Datamover Architecture for the
>>                     Internet Small Computer System Interface
>> (iSCSI)          Author:     M. Chadalapaka,
>>                     J. Hufferd,
>>                     J. Satran,
>>                     H. Shah
>>         Status:     Historic
>>         Stream:     IETF
>>         Date:       October 2007
>>         Pages:      49
>>         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
>>
>>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ips-iwarp-da-05.txt
>>
>>         URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5047
>>
>>         DOI:        10.17487/RFC5047
>>
>> The Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) is a SCSI
>> transport protocol that maps the SCSI family
>> of application protocols onto TCP/IP.  Datamover Architecture
>> for iSCSI (DA) defines an abstract model in which the
>> movement of data between iSCSI end nodes is logically
>> separated from the rest of the iSCSI protocol in order to
>> allow iSCSI to adapt to innovations available in new IP
>> transports.  While DA defines the architectural functions
>> required of the class of Datamover protocols, it does not
>> define any specific Datamover protocols.  Each such Datamover
>> protocol, defined in a separate document, provides a
>> reliable transport for all iSCSI PDUs, but actually moves the
>> data required for certain iSCSI PDUs without involving the
>> remote iSCSI layer itself.  This document begins with an
>> introduction of a few new abstractions, defines a layered
>> architecture for iSCSI and Datamover protocols, and then
>> models the interactions within an iSCSI end node between the
>> iSCSI layer and the Datamover layer that happen in order to
>> transparently perform remote data movement within an IP
>> fabric.  It is intended that this definition will help map
>> iSCSI to generic Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)-capable IP
>> fabrics in the future comprising TCP, the Stream Control
>> Transmission Protocol (SCTP), and possibly other underlying
>> network transport layers, such as InfiniBand.
>>
>> This document is a product of the IP Storage Working Group of
>> the IETF.
>>
>> HISTORIC: This memo defines a Historic Document for the
>> Internet community.  It does not specify an Internet standard
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