Internal WG Review: Storage Transport (stwg)

[iesg-secretary@ietf.org]

A new IETF working group is being considered in the Internet Area.
The draft charter for this working group is provided below for your review
and comment.

Review time is one week.

The IETF Secretariat.

 Storage Transport (stwg)
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 Current Status: Proposed Working Group 

 Chair(s):
 Elizabeth Rodriguez <ElizabethRodriguez@ieee.org>

 Internet Area Director(s):
 Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
 Margaret Wasserman <mrw@windriver.com>

 Internet Area Advisor:
 Margaret Wasserman <mrw@windriver.com>

 Technical Advisor(s):
 Keith McCloghrie <kzm@cisco.com>
 David L. Black <black_david@emc.com>

 Mailing Lists:
 TBD, probably stwg@ietf.org

 Description of Working Group:

 Fibre Channel is a high speed network technology primarily used for 
 storage networking (i.e., Storage Area Networks [SANs]). Two
 important aspects of Fibre Channel interact with the Internet:
 - Fibre Channel can encapsulate and carry IP protocol traffic
 - Fibre Channel devices can be managed via SNMP

 The Storage Transport WG (stwg) is chartered to address two areas,
 specifically:
 - IPv4 over Fibre Channel has been specified in RFC 2625. A
                 corresponding specification for IPv6 is needed.
 - An initial Fibre Channel Management MIB has been developed by
                 the IP Storage (ips) WG; extensions are needed to encompass
                 management of additional aspects of Fibre Channel, such
                 as zoning.
 - In the future, other storage related MIBs for other storage 
 transports such as Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or SCSI command 
 specific MIBs may be proposed.

 As Fibre Channel standardization is handled by the INCITS T11 Technical
 Committee (http://www.t11.org), a close working relationship with T11 is
 essential to the WG's success. In particular:
 - The IPv6 over Fibre Channel specification will be based on
                 draft-desanti-ipv6-over-fibre-channel-02.txt . This draft
                 was originally developed within a T11 study group and T11
                 has officially recommended this draft to the IETF.
 - The WG will not standardize management of Fibre Channel features
                 ahead of their incorporation into appropriate T11 Fibre
                 Channel standards.
 - The WG will work closely with T11, specifically Task Group T11.5,
                 on the functionality and structure of the MIBs it develops
                   for management of Fibre Channel.

 Goals and Milestones:

 Oct 03 Submit IPv6 over Fibre Channel draft to IESG for consideration
                                                 as Proposed Standard
 ??? Submit XXX MIB to IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard
 ??? Submit YYY MIB to IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard
 ??? Submit ZZZ MIB to IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard
 Oct 04 Consult with Area Directors about what, if any, additional
                                                 work the WG should undertake.