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

On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Carl Hensler wrote:

>
>> 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.

Yes, and I'd like to add that IPoIB-CM does not imply any change to IPoIB-UD.
The draft takes care of ensuring there is no impact on the existing 
implementations.

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

and a few other major OSes :).

>
> I think the WG should complete work on IPoIB-CM expeditiously,

I'd posted the draft of -01.txt to the list earlier. I should be able to
update it with Dror's suggestions soon enough. We should be able to move
fast on it from there.

Vivek

> and determine whether there is community support for completing
> the MIBs.
>
> Carl
>
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