[storm] MPA Peer Connect: Publication Requested

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I have just requested publication of the MPA Peer Connect draft as a Proposed Standard RFC.  The next process steps will be Area Director review (by our AD, Dave Harrington) followed by IETF Last Call.  The PROTO writeup that is part of the publication request follows.

Enjoy,
--David

PROTO writeup: 
                 Enhanced RDMA Connection Establishment
                draft-ietf-storm-mpa-peer-connect-04.txt

Requested Publication Status: Proposed Standard
PROTO shepherd: David L. Black (STORM WG Co-Chair)
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     Technical Summary

	This document extends iWARP (rddp) RDMA connection establishment
	with two functions that apply to the adaptation layer between RDMA
	functionality and the transport protocol.  The first extension broadens
	MPA (adaptation to TCP) to enable connection establishment without
	initial data to send in support of applications structured as a
	collection of peers.  The second extension improves connection setup
	for both MPA/TCP and the SCTP adaptation by adding support for
	standardized exchange of resource availability (queue depth) information.

     Working Group Summary

	This document makes small additions to existing protocols.  There
	has been clear WG recognition that this functionality is needed to 
	match the usage of these protocols by an important class of applications,
	and no significant WG dissent from the design in this document.

     Document Quality

	There are multiple existing implementations of the iWARP (rddp) RDMA
	protocols that have plans to add the functionality specified in
	this document.  Hemal Shah reviewed the near-final version of this
	draft and found some important corrections that needed to be made.