<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Wise</b> <<a href="mailto:swise@opengridcomputing.com">swise@opengridcomputing.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Michael Krause wrote:<br>> The proper action is to propose a new MPA specification to the IETF - it<br>> isn't an OFA decision to make. MPA within the IETF was a tough fight to<br>> get into existence. This particular issue was raised and the outcome
<br>> from that debate is what is in the 1.0 specification (it is a standard<br>> if I recall not a draft).<br><br>As far as I can see on the IETF site, the MPA, DDP, and RDMAP docs are<br>all expired Internet Drafts. Can you point me to the RFCs?
<br><br>> Fine to argue here but action and<br>> specification work must be brought up in the IETF RDDP workgroup and<br>> likely to be vetted as well by the TSVWG and Transport AD (both weighed<br>> in quite a bit during MPA's creation).
<br>><br>> If the IETF approves a new draft, then OFA can develop the associated<br>> software. But there may be multiple software stacks to deal with legacy<br>> hardware / drivers so the problem isn't just fixed by providing a new
<br>> MPA specification. People are using iWARP today that is compliant with<br>> today's MPA specification.<br>><br><br>Yup.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Interop-wg mailing list
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