RE: Ecosystems cost of additional specs (RE: Please re ad - proposed WG termination)

> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:45:30 -0700
> From: Michael Krause <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: Ecosystems cost of additional specs (RE: [Ipoverib] Please	
re ad - proposed WG termination)
> To: Dror Goldenberg <[email protected]>, "'Harald Tveit Alvestrand'" 
<[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]

> Somewhat an aside, but it is ironic that standard APIs are often ignored / 
> deemed "crap" by some even if many systems can benefit from them yet this 
> spec which is likely to be implemented by a single OS and used only in 
> perhaps a subset of deployments is deemed worthy. Apologies for the tangent.

Mike,

IPoIB-CM is an optional protocol extension accessed through the 
standard networking API, Sockets.

If standardized, it will be implemented for all three major OSes,
Linux and Windows in OpenIB, and Solaris at Sun.

I think the WG should complete work on IPoIB-CM expeditiously, 
and determine whether there is community support for completing
the MIBs.

Carl