Subject: 47th IETF: IPS BOF

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:19:17 -0500

IP Storage BOF (ips)

Wednesday, March 29 at 1530-1730
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CHAIRS: Mark Bradley <[email-masked]>
        David Lee <[email-masked]> 

DESCRIPTION:

The goal of this working group is to define extensions to current 
IETF transports for storage networking.

There are a several areas to consider:

    - Reducing protocol processing overhead at servers and clients
    - SCSI transport on top of TCP
    - QoS parameters for storage networks
    - Running storage transports at multi-gigabit speeds

The objectives of this working group are:

* A proposed standard for a SCSI transport on top of TCP

* A proposed standard for extensions to TCP that reduce protocol
  processing overhead.

* Produce an informational RFC describing the QoS requirements of  
  storage networks. Propose QoS extensions to diffserv if necessary.

* Produce an informational RFC discussing the issues behind running
  storage transports at multi-gigabit speeds.

AGENDA:

  5 min Review of BOF agenda and objectives (D. Lee/M. Bradley)
 10 min IP Storage Goals (D. Nagle/A. Wilson)
 15 min Discussion
 30 min Approaches & Implementations (10 min presentations)
    o SCSI/TCP (TBA)
    o Adaptec (A. Wilson)
    o ISI's NetSCSI (?)
 40 min discussion
  5 min Proposed charters (D. Lee/M. Bradley/C. Sapuntzakis)
 15 min Discussion

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