RE: draft-carrier-rddp-rnic-interop-00.txt

Feedback is appreciated on this draft. This was a result of an informal
group working over beers after the RDDP work group meeting gave us
direction to try to solve interoperability as an informative appendix to
the MPA specification. 

John and I tried to be very specific about the exact recommended text
changes for the various drafts, to hopefully expedite the review process
with something concrete to shoot at.



Jim



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> Carrier, John
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:44 AM
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> Subject: [rddp] draft-carrier-rddp-rnic-interop-00.txt
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> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:38:09 -0500
> Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-carrier-rddp-rnic-interop-00.txt
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> 
> 
> 	Title		: RNIC Interoperability
> 	Author(s)	: J. Carrier, J. Pinkerton
> 	Filename	: draft-carrier-rddp-rnic-interop-00.txt
> 	Pages		: 18
> 	Date		: 2004-11-22
> 
> This document describes a mechanism for enabling RDMA Network
>    Interface Cards (RNICs) that implement both the IETF and RDMAC
>    versions of the DDP and RDMAP protocols to interoperate with legacy
>    RNICs that are based on the RDMAC version of the protocols.  The
>    proposed scheme uses MPA Request/Reply Frames to negotiate the
>    protocol version as well as MPA marker and MPA CRC.  A ULP or other
>    supporting entity must perform this negotiation on behalf of the
>    RDMAC RNIC because RDMAC MPA does not define an MPA connection
>    scheme using MPA Request/Reply frames. This draft also makes
>    specific recommendations for minor changes to the IETF MPA, DDP,
and
>    RDMAP internet drafts to aid in interoperability.
> 
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-carrier-rddp-rnic-interop-00.t
xt
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