[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 0/9] RDMAoE - RDMA over Ethernet

[Roland Dreier]

 > If I might chime in here...I've been working to actively squash the
 > expression 'IBoE' or any variation that includes IB in the name.  The reason
 > is because the InfiniBand Architecture is defined as a cohesive solution
 > that includes five layers of the OSI stack.  Hence using the expression IBoE
 > creates unnecessary confusion by implying that RDMAoE includes elements of
 > IB from the five OSI layers, which is not an accurate description of the
 > proposal.

Seems pretty silly to me -- if I build an IB router that carries IB over
the WAN on MPLS, is it not InfiniBand because it uses the wrong layer 1?
Similarly the worlds seems to cope with talking about FCoE rather than
SCSIoE even though FCoE does not share all the OSI layers of fibre channel.