The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'T11 Network Address Authority (NAA) naming format for iSCSI Node Names '
<draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-name-ext-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the IP Storage Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Allison Mankin and Jon Peterson.
Technical Summary
The INCITS (International Committee of Information
Technology Standards) T11 organization defines a format called the
Network Address Authority (NAA) format for constructing worldwide
unique identifiers using various identifier registration authorities.
This identifier format is used by the Fibre Channel (FC) and Serial
Attached SCSI (SAS) transport protocols. Since most existing
networked SCSI ports are either FC or SAS, the NAA format is
the most commonly used identifier format for SCSI transports.
If iSCSI included a naming format that allowed direct
representation of a NAA-format name, it would facilitate
construction of a target device name that translated easily
across multiple namespaces for a SCSI storage device containing
ports served by different transports.
This document defines an NAA type iSCSI naming format so that
one NAA identifier can be assigned as the basis for the SCSI
device name for a SCSI target with both SAS ports and iSCSI ports.
Working Group Summary
The working group was very deliberate about adding this naming
format for iSCSI. It is a deliberate choice in the iSCSI specification
that iSCSI naming formats are not extensible, but rather need to be
deliberated on a case-by-case basis.
Protocol Quality
This naming format is deployed. Allison Mankin reviewed this specification
for the IESG. Elizabeth Rodriguez shepherded the Area Director comments,
and David Black shepherded the IESG comments.
RFC Editor Note:
OLD:
InterNational Committee of Information Technology Standards is
the primary U.S. focus of standardization in the field of
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), encompassing
storage, processing, transfer, display, management, organization,
and retrieval of information. As such, INCITS also serves as
ANSI's Technical Advisory Group for ISO/IEC Joint Technical
Committee 1. JTC 1 is responsible for International
standardization in the field of Information Technology. See
www.incits.org
NEW:
InterNational Committee of Information Technology Standards
(INCITS) has broad standardization scope within the field of
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) encompassing
storage, processing, transfer, display, management, organization,
and retrieval of information. INCITS serves as
ANSI's Technical Advisory Group for ISO/IEC Joint Technical
Committee 1 (JTC 1). See www.incits.org.
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