Discrepancy for NAA in "T10/BSR INCITS 513, Revision 36h, 13 July 2013, Information technology -SCSI Primary Commands - 4 (SPC-4)"

Gerry Houlder gerry.houlder at seagate.com
Wed Jul 24 11:55:12 PDT 2013


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Should someone write a proposal to change it in T11? The T11 reference
seems to be referring to the same entity.
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Penokie, George
<George.Penokie at lsi.com>wrote:
> * From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
> * "Penokie, George" <George.Penokie at lsi.com>
> *
> NAA originated in T11 so we (T10) should not be changing it.
>
> Bye for now,
> George Penokie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-t10 at t10.org [mailto:owner-t10 at t10.org] On Behalf Of Ralph
> Weber
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 1:01 PM
> To: T10 Reflector
> Subject: Re: Discrepancy for NAA in "T10/BSR INCITS 513, Revision 36h, 13
> July 2013, Information technology -SCSI Primary Commands - 4 (SPC-4)"
>
> * From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
> * Ralph Weber <roweber at ieee.org>
> *
> The latest revision of FC-FS-4 contains 0 instances of Name Address
> Authority and 6 of Network Address Authority.
>
> So... Is T10 going to follow the lead of the other standard that uses
> NAA in the way that SPC-4 does? Or, is original intent more important
> than consistent terms of reference today?
>
> Since something has to change in SPC-4 either way, the workload for the
> editor seems to be of little consequence in this decision.
>
> All the best,
>
> .Ralph
>
> On 7/24/2013 9:31 AM, Gerry Houlder wrote:
> > I agree that "Name Address Authority" was the original intent for NAA.
> > It appears that someone did an incomplete job of changing it to
> > "Network Address Authority". Perhaps this goes back to a time when we
> > thought "name" was a different thing than this, so this acronym needed
> > a different title. I think it should change back to "Name Address
> > Authority".
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:29 PM, John Geldman (jgeldman)
> > <jgeldman at micron.com > wrote:
> >
> >	Looking at Bob Snively's 12-101r2, it was "Name Address Authority"
> >	in the proposal.
> >
> >	IEEE itself does not seem to define NAA, only reference T10 and
> >	Fiber Channel. They reference T10 when providing guidelines for
> >	 EUI-64 (http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/tut/eui64.pdf)
> >	and  when providing guidelines for using OUI's for Fibre Channel
> >	(http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/tut/fibre.pdf).
> >
> >	John Geldman
> >
> >	Director, Industry Standards
> >
> >	Micron Semiconductor
> >
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> >	email: jgeldman at micron.com 
> >
> >	*From:*owner-t10 at t10.org <mailto:owner-t10 at t10.org>
> >	[mailto:owner-t10 at t10.org <mailto:owner-t10 at t10.org>] *On Behalf
> >	Of *Liu Wang
> >	*Sent:* Tuesday, July 23, 2013 5:34 PM
> >	*To:* t10 at t10.org <mailto:t10 at t10.org>
> >	*Subject:* Discrepancy for NAA in "T10/BSR INCITS 513, Revision
> >	36h, 13 July 2013, Information technology -SCSI Primary Commands -
> >	4 (SPC-4)"
> >
> >	Discrepancy for NAA in "T10/BSR INCITS 513, Revision 36h, 13 July
> >	2013, Information technology -SCSI Primary Commands - 4 (SPC-4):"
> >
> >	( page lxviii )Table 602 - Name Address Authority (NAA)
> >
>
field........................................................................
.................
> >	742
> >
> >	*(page 15 ) 3.1.96 network address authority (NAA) *(see 7.8.6.6
> >	and FC-FS-3)
> >
> >	(page 23) NAA Network Address Authority (see 3.1.96)
> >
> >	(page 742) The Name Address Authority (NAA) field (see table 602)
> >	defines the format of the NAA specific data in the...
> >
> >	(page 742) *Table 602 - Name Address Authority (**NAA**) field*
> >
> >	Sincerely,
> >
> >	Liu Wang
> >
> >
>
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