Re: [imss] Last Call comments on draft-ietf-imss-fc-zs-mib-00.txt

> Section 3 is not a "Short" Overview of Fibre Channel ;-).  It could

OK, I'll just delete the "Short".

> usefully be broken into 3 subsections:
> - Overview

After deleting "Short", this would be better as "Introduction" or as
"General Overview".

> - Zoning
> - Zoning Configuration and Management

OK, I assume you're not suggesting a re-ordering, but just the insertion
of sub-section titles, e.g., insert "3.3  Zoning Configuration and
Management" immediately before::

   Zones are configured via a Fabric Zone Server, using ...

> The first paragraph describing zoning says:
> 
>    Zones within a fabric provide a mechanism to control frame delivery
>    between Nx_Ports ("Hard Zoning") or to expose selected views of Name
>    Server information ("Soft Zoning").  This technique is similar to
>    virtual private networks in that the fabric has the ability to group
>    devices into Zones.
> 
> It needs an additional few sentences to explain what a zone does and
> where it's enforced, specifically to make the following points:
> - Communication is only possible when the communicating endpoints
> 	are members of a common zone.
> - Hard zoning and soft zoning are two different means of realizing
> 	this.  Hard zoning is enforced in the fabric (i.e., switches)
> 	whereas soft zoning is enforced at the endpoints (e.g., HBAs)
> 	by relying on the endpoints to not send traffic to an N_Port_ID
> 	not obtained from the nameserver with a few exceptions for well
> 	known N_Port_IDs used to bootstrap the fabric (e.g., talk to the
> 	nameserver).

OK.

> Section 5.4 ought to explain how an SNMP management client can determine
> whether a fabric is operating in basic vs. enhanced mode.

OK.  I'll add a paragraph which mentions t11ZsServerOperationMode, and
probably t11ZsServerCapabilityObject as well.

Keith.

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