Technical Summary
This document describes a transport protocol for SCSI that works
on top of TCP. The iSCSI protocol aims to be fully compliant with
the standardized SCSI Architecture Model (SAM-2). RFC 3720
defined the original iSCSI protocol. RFC 3721 discusses iSCSI
Naming examples and discovery techniques. Subsequently, RFC 3980
added an additional naming format to iSCSI protocol. RFC 4850
followed up by adding a new public extension key to iSCSI. RFC
5048 offered a number of clarifications and a few improvements and
corrections to the original iSCSI protocol.
This document obsoletes RFCs 3720, 3980, 4850 and 5048 by
consolidating them into a single document and making additional
updates to the consolidated specification. This document also
updates RFC 3721 and RFC 3723. The text in this document thus
supersedes the text in all the noted RFCs wherever there is a
difference in semantics.
Working Group Summary
There was very little dissent in the WG over the functionality in this
document. Significant WG discussion was devoted to correctly specifying
SCSI-related identifiers used by this draft. Rob Elliott and Ralph
Weber (key members of the T10 SCSI standards organization) provided
significant assistance in working through the identifier issues.
Document Quality
iSCSI implementers from Dell, EMC, Microsoft, NetApp, RedHat and VMware
have reviewed this document for quality and consistency with existing
implementations. The reviews indicate that the changes are clearly
specified, and are not expected to be significantly disruptive to add to
existing implementations.
Personnel
David L. Black (david.black@emc.com) is the Document Shepherd
Martin Stiemerling (martin.stiemerling@neclab.eu) is the responsible AD.