Re: [storm] I_T nexus identifier editorial

Mallikarjun,

I think that's enough of a technical change that making it now would be a good idea, especially
as we can't send the consolidated draft for publication until the new features (SAM) draft is
ready to go also.

While you're looking at this, please double check the alignment of these names and identifiers
with the material in Annex A of SAM-5 (e.g., both the ISID and TPGT are documented there as
hex numbers with a '0x' prefix).

Thanks,
--David (storm WG co-chair).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: storm-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:storm-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mallikarjun Chadalapaka
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 6:44 PM
> To: storm@ietf.org
> Subject: [storm] I_T nexus identifier editorial
> 
> In responding to editorial comments on iSCSI-SAM-4 draft, I have just
> noticed a related editorial in the consolidated draft that dates back to RFC
> 3720.
> 
> I_T nexus - a relationship between a SCSI Initiator Port and a
> SCSI Target Port, according to [SAM2]. For iSCSI, this
> relationship is a session, defined as a relationship
> between an iSCSI Initiator's end of the session (SCSI
> Initiator Port) and the iSCSI Target's Portal Group. The
> I_T nexus can be identified by the conjunction of the SCSI
> port names or by the iSCSI session identifier SSID. iSCSI
> defines the I_T nexus identifier to be the tuple (iSCSI
> Initiator Name + 'i' + ISID, iSCSI Target Name + 't' +
> Portal Group Tag).
> 
> The parenthetical expression at the end should really have four commas in
> it:
> 
> (iSCSI Initiator Name + ',i,' + ISID, iSCSI Target Name + ',t,' + Portal
> Group Tag).
> 
> This is how the mapping table captures the nexus identifier in the
> iSCSI-SAM-4 draft.  And it'd be good to have consistency between the two
> drafts.  I am assuming it'd be possible to make this tweak during the
> authors' 48 hour review before the publication (David/Tom?)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mallikarjun
> 
> 
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