Kevin,
Thanks for posting the new documents, and for offering to
organize the call. Any time that you propose OTHER than 1pm on Tuesday will
work for me. I also have a reservationless conference scheme that we can use if
that would help.
What I'm intending to do for this call next week is to try
and take a step back and document very simply what the problem is that we're
trying to solve (on which I think we have a good level of consensus), and
then try and list the specific requirements that need to be met by the solution.
I'm hoping that you think that would be useful.
My interpretation of the thread up until today is that we
have three or four different approaches to the solution, all of which will work
at some level, and that to be able to evaluate those approaches effectively
we'll need to agree what the requirements are and assign a
weighting.
Also, for those who've just started to participate in this
thread, I'd like to reiterate something that Kevin said in his first message
responding to my comments on his original posting. He said:
"I would prefer that we work together to shape a
mutually beneficial proposal as opposed to have "competing" proposals. I
am willing to modify my proposal where it can be made easier and such. I
am not sold that my proposed method is the only way or even the best - it's just
the way I thought of doing it."
I think these are admirable sentiments: I agree with
them 110% and I hope that everybody else does too. We MUST end up with
something here that we can all live with - we MUST NOT end up with two different
ways of doing this, one will be complicated enough!
Regards,
Roger Cummings
SYMANTEC
From: Kevin D Butt
[mailto:kdbutt@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:16
PM
To: t10@t10.org
Cc: Black_David@emc.com;
Gerry.Houlder@seagate.com; Knight, Frederick; Raymond Gilson; Roger Cummings;
Keith Bello; Christine R Knibloe; Andrew Hisgen; roweber@ieee.org; John
Lohmeyer
Subject: Group Reservations Phone
Conference
I posted a proposal for an
addition to Persistent Reservations. The proposal is 08-025r0 with an
accompanying presentation to introduce the proposal which is 08-024r0.
http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/document.08/08-025r0.pdf
http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/document.08/08-024r0.pdf
These generated much traffic and
discussion of modifying the proposal to cover additional requirements.
These discussion included a request to have a phone conference to help
people understand the problem(s) that are needed to be solved. To that
end I will be hosting a Group Reservations phone conference next week.
There will be no web conference utilities just audio.
If you are interested in attending please
let me know which of the following times is best for you. I will select
the time from the responses.
Monday, January 7, 9:00 - 10:00 AM MST
Monday, January 7, 1:00 - 2:00 PM MST
Tuesday, January 8, 9:00 - 10:00 AM MST
Tuesday, January 8, 1:00 - 2:00 PM MST
Wednesday, January 9, 9:00 - 10:00 AM MST
Thanks,
Kevin D. Butt
SCSI & Fibre Channel Architect, Tape
Firmware
MS 6TYA, 9000 S. Rita Rd., Tucson, AZ 85744
Tel: 520-799-2869 /
520-799-5280
Fax: 520-799-2723 (T/L:321)
Email address:
kdbutt@us.ibm.com
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/