Re: DRAFT Montreal minutes - X#NodeArchitecture comments

[William Studenmund <wrstuden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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\On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:41 AM, David Wysochanski wrote:

> 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. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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