[openib-general] RE: [Openib-promoters] Need for ONE OpenIB Release process that allmembers can agree to and that follows OpenIB Bylaws

[Peter Kjellström]

Bill just took the first e-mail (first in a long thread) from Brian. If you 
read up on it you'll see that the thread, IMO, ended in favor of SRP and 
possibly iSER as a part or 1.0

/Peter

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:19, Weber, Bret wrote:
> Bill, This is the first that I have heard of the desire for some to drop
> SRP and iSER.
>
> These are our storage protocols and the defined standard methods to run
> SCSI over IB to native IB storage (or any other RDMA based wire).
>
> Active testing is going on with feedback being given back to the
> developers on these drivers.
>
> Storage is a major part of the promise of IB, RDMA, and Unified wire.
>
> We can't be looking at dropping it now.  It was late getting into the
> gen 2 stack, but now that it is in, storage vendors are ramping up on
> it.
>
> Bret

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  Peter Kjellström               |
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  Sweden                         | http://www.nsc.liu.se
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