IETF storm (STORage Maintenance) WG
Meeting minutes (draft)
Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 1710-1810
Quebec City, QC, Canada
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Administrivia, agenda bashing, etc. - 10 min
		David L. Black, EMC & Tom Talpey, Microsoft (WG co-chairs)
	Blue sheets
	Note Well
	Review of WG milestones
	Note-taker
		Notes being taken in copy of agenda.

Draft status - 5 min
		David L. Black, EMC (co-chair)
	iFCP update and associated iFCP MIB update - Published as RFCs 6172 and 6173
	MPA update - Publication Requested, AD is processing
		Dave Harrington will review proposed new -06 from Arkady.
	iSCSI drafts (Consolidated, SAM and MIB)
		In WG Last Call
	iSER draft
		Has gotten unstalled - covered later in meeting.
	RDMA extensions (not currently a WG draft)
		Draft status was reviewed - see IETF web site.

iSCSI Drafts (draft-ietf-storm-iscsi-cons-03, draft-ietf-storm-iscsi-sam-03) - 10 min
		Fred Knight, NetApp & WG co-chairs
	Issues that need attention from ongoing WG Last Call, if any
		iSCSI Protocol Level for version descriptors - approach is ok (T10 SPC-4
		editor was on phone for this part of meeting), details will appear in next
		version of draft.
	Status of engagement of iSCSI implementers to review these drafts
		Engagement ongoing, WG Last Call will be extended if needed for implementer input.
		David Black can provide info that's useful to engage implementers without asking
			them to read the entire multi-hundred page iSCSI draft.

iSCSI MIB draft (draft-ietf-storm-iscsimib-00) - 5 min
		David L. Black, EMC (co-chair) on behalf of draft authors
	If time needed, status report under "Draft status" above may suffice
		Authors - please double-check that new conformance statements are being added
			-> don't modify or delete old ones.

iSER draft (draft-ietf-storm-iser-02) - 10 min
		Mike Ko, HuaweiSymantec (on behalf of draft authors)
	Summarize known topics & issues that need attention
		Summary discussed, see slides.

RDMA Protocol Extensions Draft (draft-ietf-storm-rdmap-ext-01) - 20 min
		Hemal Shah, Broadcom (on behalf of draft authors)
	NOTE: Despite its filename, this is not an official storm WG draft.

	Discussion of draft contents and rationale.
		Number of bytes of immediate data - for subsequent discussion.
			8 is a small number, but there are serious implementation limits.
	Question: Should WG should adopt this draft as a work item.

	Sense of room: Yes. Next actions:
		(1) Confirm that sense of room on the mailing list.
		(2) Send updated charter text with new item to AD.
			Make sure to characterize the work as new functionality.