[Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMAAPIs and ULPs for Linux

[Caitlin Bestler]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Woodruff [mailto:robert.j.woodruff at intel.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 5:36 PM
> To: Caitlin Bestler; Roland Dreier; James Lentini; 
> Arkady.Kanevsky at netapp.com
> Cc: Venkata Jagana; rdma-developers at lists.sourceforge.net; 
> openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: RE: [Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB 
> and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMAAPIs and ULPs for Linux
> 
> However, as Roland said earlier,
> 
> >Without seeing some real patches from the iWARP side, it's 
> hard for me 
> >to see any value in continuing to participate in this debate.
> 
> > - R.
> 

Oh that's a great development plan for me to propose
to my business people. Let's go write lots of code,
and *after* we write it the IB people (our competitors)
have agreed to *look* at it (but they're all busy, don't
forget) and *then* we just might get merged in.

If nobody is willing to discuss what the characteristics
of this merged API will look like *before* we have to 
code it then there is no motivation to work inside OpenIB
at all.