Re: DRAFT Montreal minutes - X#NodeArchitecture comments

William Studenmund wrote:
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> \On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:41 AM, David Wysochanski wrote:
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>  > William Studenmund wrote:
>  >> Actually, how about "iSCSI-local-name-value".
>  >> The thing I don't like about list-of-values is that it implies, to 
>  >> me at least, list negotiations. Which we don't want here. :-) 
>  >> Also, list-
>  >> of-values just vies us "text-value" plus comma. Among other 
>  >> things, we don't have spaces, nor do we have CR.
>  >
>  >
>  > Don't you think this would look a little strange though:
>  >
>  > X#NodeArchitecture
>  >
>  >    Use: LO, Declarative
>  >    Senders: Initiator and Target
>  >    Scope: SW
>  >
>  >    X#NodeArchitecture=<iSCSI-local-name-value>
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > The reason I think it looks strange is that what is being defined
>  > is not an iSCSI name.  The "list-of-values" sounds more generic,
>  > especially if you compare the definitions in 3720.
>  > Granted, "list-of-values" and "iSCSI-local-name-value" are just
>  > tags to describe string rules, but it looks odd.
> 
> Then let's come up with a new name.
> 
>  > However, it sounds like what you really want is just to expand
>  > the character set beyond what text-value defines, to something
>  > more broad such as UTF-8.  I guess I don't see that much value
>  > in expanding it (are underscores that more unreadable than spaces,
>  > and do we really need CR's?), but maybe you have some particular
>  > use cases in mind.
> 
> Well, here are the examples from the draft:
> 
> X#NodeArchitecture="Microsoft Software Initiator/1.05a,
>                            Microsoft Windows/2003Build1489,
>                            Microsoft Cluster Services/2.0,
>                            CPU Architecture/x86_64"
> X#NodeArchitecture="Qlogic iSCSI 4010 Hardware Initiator/rev1,
>                            Qlogic Firmware/2.0.0.5,
>                            Qlogic Driver/2.0.0.1"
> X#NodeArchitecture="Linux iSCSI Software Initiator/4:0.1.11-3,
>                            Red Hat Enterprise Linux/4u3,
>                            Linux Kernel/2.6.9-34.26.ELsmp,
>                            CPU Architecture/i686,
>                            CPU Speed/3.06GHz,
>                            Memory Size/4059364kB"
> X#NodeArchitecture="NetApp Software Target/7.1,
>                            Data ONTAP/7.1,
>                            NetApp FAS/270c"
> 
> Sure looks like spaces and CRs. :-)
> 

Oh, so you're mainly concerned about the examples?

Did you see my latest post on 7/13?  I corrected the spaces
(replaced with underscores) and removed the double quotes.
I'm not sure how to express the whole string without splitting
lines but will try to figure that out.

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