[ofa-general] RE: [ewg] [PATCH 0/9] RDMAoE - RDMA over Ethernet -- some procedural questions

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Mon Jun 15 21:13:12 PDT 2009


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:54:49PM -0700, Ryan, Jim wrote:

> Recall the bylaws of OFA requires that any ULPs that OFA supports
> will be produced by some recognized standards organization. No such
> organization was known to be associated with the Mellanox proposal.
 
Is this being submitted as something to be included with OFA/Linux or
is this just a technology demonstration?

Personally, I don't think the proliferation of new networking
protocols is something to be encouraged. If this is really what people
want it should be IBoE and just like FCoE all the issues regarding
interworking with actual IB networks must be delt with.

Jason



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