Subject: Fw: ips Administrative Matters and framework document

From: "Murali Rajagopal" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 14:09:10 -0700

Dear IPFC WG Members:

The FC-IP standardization work is now officially under the charter of the
IPS WG.

The IPFC WG will continue to operate until its chartered work is complete.
We have two drafts - one framework and the other a Management MIB in the
process of completion within the IPFC WG.

The frame work doc. is now sent out for a Last Call comments. It is expected
that the Management MIB will be completed by the San Diego Meeting.

Regards,

Murali Rajagopal

IPFC WG Chair

LightSand Communications
[email-masked]

----- Original Message -----
From: <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 3:58 PM
Subject: ips Administrative Matters and framework document

> The ips WG charter is now posted on the IETF web site at:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ips-charter.html
>
> Everyone should read it, as it contains a number of
> important statements of goals, requirements, and restrictions,
> in addition to a current set of expected milestones.
>
> There are no drafts currently linked to the charter.  The
> current plan is to have new versions of the iSCSI and FC over
> IP drafts submitted as WG documents (draft-ietf-ips-...) and
> link them at that point.  Things have changed sufficiently
> since the last versions, that linking them to the web
> copy of the charter could seriously mislead people who
> aren't following the mailing list.  This should happen
> by the end of October, and hopefully a lot earlier (yes,
> this is a public hint to the document authors :-) ).
>
> That takes care of the first milestone on the charter.
> The second milestone is to get an initial version of
> the framework document submitted as an Internet-Draft.
> The charter says:
>
>   "The WG will produce a framework document that provides
>    an overview of the environments in which its encapsulated
>    protocols and related protocols are expected to operate."
>
> The framework document is the place for discussions of how, why
> and where iSCSI and FC-over-IP might be used and what the various
> other components are that have to be present to make them usable
> aside from implementations of these protocols.  This also includes
> complementarity of these protocols and discussion of overlap/
> situations in which both might be applicable.
>
> The initial version of the framework document will be produced
> by an off-line author team for review and comment by the WG.
> I'm looking for a few good authors for the document - expertise
> on networking, SCSI and Fibre Channel will be needed in the
> author team.  Volunteers should have the time available to produce
> significant text in the next couple of months, and there's
> a need for one person to put in the time to coordinate this
> effort and assemble the text as document editor.  The rewards
> are fleeting fame as a co-author of the document; I would
> guess that it'll go through several serious revisions over the
> next 6 months or so before it can be submitted for publication
> as an informational RFC.  If you're interested (and I hope
> a number of folks out there are), please send me email directly.
>
> Thanks,
> --David
>
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