Re: [Ips] Storage Maintenance (storm) BOF reminder & requests

Hello David,  I'll be seeing you there in San Francisco.  We have a high
interest in these areas.  As we've discussed I plan to author the
SAM-4/5 feature additions, and contribute heavily to the other items
you've listed.

I too believe your option "C" is the minimum, and we'll have to see if
"D" is needed from time to time.

	Fred Knight


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Subject: [Ips] Storage Maintenance (storm) BOF reminder & requests
Importance: High

This is a reminder that the Storage Maintenance BOF will be held in
about 2 weeks at the IETF meetings in San Francisco.
Please plan to attend if you're interested:

THURSDAY, March 26, 2009
Continental 1&2  	TSV  	storm  	 Storage Maintenance BOF

The BOF description is at:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ips/current/msg02669.html

The initial agenda is here:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ips/current/msg02670.html

I'm going to go upload that initial agenda as the BOF agenda, and it can
be bashed at the meeting.

The primary purpose of this BOF is to answer two questions:
(1) What storage maintenance work (IP Storage, Remote Direct
	Data Placement) should be done?
(2) Should an IETF Working Group be formed to undertake that
	work?

Everyone gets to weigh in on these decisions, even those who can't
attend the BOF meeting.  Anyone who thinks that there is work that
should be done, and who cannot come to the BOF meeting should say so on
the IPS or RDDP mailing lists (and it'd be a good idea for those who can
come to do this).  As part of the email, please indicate how you're
interested in helping (author or co-author of specific drafts, promise
to review and comment on specific drafts).

Here's a summary of the initial draft list of work items:
- iSCSI: Combine RFCs into one document, removing unused features.
- iSCSI: Interoperability report on what has been implemented and
	interoperates in support of Draft Standard status for iSCSI.
- iSCSI: Add backwards-compatible features to support SAM-4.
- iFCP: The Address Translation mode of iFCP needs to be deprecated.
- RDDP MPA: Small startup update for MPI application support.
- iSER: A few minor updates based on InfiniBand experience.

Additional work (e.g., updated/improved iSNS for iSCSI, MIB changes,
updated ipsec security profile [i.e., IKEv2-based]) is possible if
there's interest.

There are (at least) four possible outcomes:
(A) None of this work needs to be done.
(B) There are some small work items that make sense.  Individual
	drafts with a draft shepherd (i.e., David Black) will
	suffice.
(C) A working group is needed to undertake more complex work
	items and reach consensus on design issues.  The WG can
	be "virtual" and operate mostly via the mailing list
	until/unless controversial/contentious issues arise.
(D) There is a lot of complex work that is needed, and a WG
	that will plan to meet at every IETF meeting should be
	formed.

Please note that the IETF "rough consensus" process requires a working
group in practice to be effective.  This makes outcome
(C) look attractive to me, as:
- I'm coming under increasing pressure to limit travel, and
	the next two IETF meetings after San Francisco are not
	in the US.
- I'd rather have the "rough consensus" process available and
	not need it than need it and not have it available.

Setting an example for how to express interest ...

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I think that the iSCSI single RFC and interoperability report are good
ideas, but I want to see a bunch of people expressing interest in these,
as significant effort is involved.  It might make sense to do the single
iSCSI RFC but put off the interoperability report (the resulting RFC
would remain at Proposed Standard rather than going to Draft Standard),
as I'm not hearing about major iSCSI interoperability issues.

I think the latter four items (SAM-4 for iSCSI, deprecate iFCP address
translation, MPI fix to MPA and iSER fixes) should all be done.

I plan to author the iFCP address translation deprecation draft, and
review all other drafts.

I think that a virtual WG should be formed that plans to do its work
primarily via the mailing list.  I believe the SAM-4 work by itself is
complex enough to need a working group - I would expect design issues to
turn up at least there and in determining whether to remove certain
iSCSI features, but I'm cautiously optimistic that the mailing list is
sufficient to work these issues out (and concerned that travel
restrictions are likely to force use of the mailing list).

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Ok, who wants to go next?

Thanks,
--David
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