sun
   microsystems              Systems Architecture Committee

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Subject:       iSNS Server

Submitted by:  Victor Li

File:          PSARC/2006/319/opinion.ms

Date:          April 25, 2007

Committee:     Mark  Carlson  (Brian  Utterback),  James  D.
               Carlson, Bill Sommerfeld, Gary Winiger.

Product Approval Committee:

               Solaris PAC
               solaris-pac-opinion

1.  Summary

Implement an iSNS (Internet Storage Name Service) server  in
accordance with IETF RFC 4171.

2.  Decision & Precedence Information

The project is approved as specified in reference  [1],  but
as  modified  by  the  required  technical changes listed in
Appendix A below.

The project may be delivered in a patch binding for  the  ON
consolidation.

3.  Interfaces

The project exports the following interfaces.

_______________________________________________________________
|                     Interfaces Exported                     |
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|
|Interface                |  Classification |  Comments       |
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|
|isnsadm(1M)              |  Volatile       |  CLI            |
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|
|isnsadm output:          |                 |                 |
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|
|    Response label       |  Volatile       |                 |
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|

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_______________________________________________________________
|                     Interfaces Exported                     |
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|
|Interface                |  Classification |  Comments       |
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|
|    data-field           |  Volatile       |                 |
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|
|/etc/isns/isnsdata.xml   |  Project private|  Data store file|
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|
|/etc/isns/isnsdata.old   |  Project private|  Previous   ver-|
|                         |                 |  sion   of  data|
|                         |                 |  store file     |
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|
|/var/run/isns_server_door|  Project private|  a file for door|
|                         |                 |  interface      |
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|
|IETF RFC 4171            |  Commited       |                 |
|_________________________|_________________|_________________|

The project imports the following interfaces.

_______________________________________
|         Interfaces Imported         |
|_________|________________|__________|
|Interface|  Classification|  Comments|
|_________|________________|__________|
|libscf   |  Commited      |          |
|_________|________________|__________|
|libdoor  |  Commited      |          |
|_________|________________|__________|

4.  Opinion

The committee voted to approve the case, with the  provision
that  some minor aspects of the spec be updated. The changes
have been made and are reflected in  the  documents  in  the
final.materials directory. The committe noted that there was
no sensitive information in the iSNS configuration and  that
there is no need to have a separate read authorization to be
able to read it.

5.  Minority Opinion(s)

none

6.  Advisory Information

The project team is  advised  to  provide  a  committed  CLI
interface in a suqsequent release.

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7.  Appendices

7.1.  Appendix A: Technical Changes Required

     1.   The read authorization for  the  iscsiadm  command
          must be removed.

7.2.  Appendix B: Technical Changes Advised

none

7.3.  Appendix C: Reference Material

Unless stated otherwise, path names are relative to the case
directory PSARC/2006/319.

     1    commitment.materials/iSNS-Design.pdf

     2    final.materials/iSNS-Design.pdf

Further supplementary material may be found in the following
files:

        commitment.materials/ReviewQuestions
        commitment.materials/iSNS-CLI-Design.pdf
        final.materials/iSNS-Design.pdf
        commitment.materials/iSNS_Cluster.txt
        final.materials/isns_server.xml
        commitment.materials/isnsdata.dtd.1
        commitment.materials/isnsmgmtSchema.xsd
        commitment.materials/issues.response

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