Draft Status:
1) draft-ietf-ipfc-mib-framework-02.txt
� Presented by Lee Hu, TWP Networks
� Status: Mostly complete
� Issue raised by Chair that the MIB lacked the Fabric Element and Fabric Management comparison, since this was one of the original goals.
� Andrea (SNIA) indicated that she may be able to help
� Lee said that the work should be complete by next IETF meet
2) draft-ietf-ipfc-mib-fcmgmt-int-mib-03.txt -
� No representative from EMC Corp. and no update available on this in over 3 months.
� Chair indicated the danger of dropping a work item if no progress is made.
3) draft-ietf-ipfc-fabric-element-mib-07.txt -
� This is now a Proposed Standard and awaiting an RFC number
RFC 2625 Next Step:
4) Interoperability Testing
� Test date now planned for second week of August at the SNIA facility in Colorado.
� Andrea (SNIA) will coordinate this effort (Facilities, Equipment, Hotel, etc)
� Barry Rienhold from UNH will drive the development of Test Suites. There is a $1500 charge per company to participate, payable to UNH.
� Plan is to submit for DRAFT STD soon after.
New Business:
5) Storage Library MIB
� Presented by Andrea (SNIA) as proposal for the WG item. (see attachment of slides)
� Question about relevance was asked and Andrea said that it was relevant to Fibre Channel as well many as other Storage devices
� There was no objection in the WG to adopt it as a new WG item
6) FC Over IP
� Presented by Murali (Gadzoox)
� draft-ietf-ipfc-fcoverip-00.txt is a joint proposal by the following authors: E. Rodriguez, Lucent Technologies; M. Rajagopal, R. Bhagwat, W. Rickard from Gadzoox (see power-point attachment)
� A number of questions were raised on reliability of IP versus TCP; the underlying assumption was that the data link layers were assumed to very reliable as in SONET; End-to--end recovery was also assumed in case
� of a IP datagram loss;
� WG suggested that the draft should indicate Reliable data links under IP, perhaps in the Abstract, otherwise it could be misleading; WG had no objections to adopting this as a new work item with the above recommendation
� Question of combining this work with IP Storage BOF was brought up
