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

Ralph Weber roweber at ieee.org
Wed Jul 24 11:00:58 PDT 2013


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* Ralph Weber <roweber at ieee.org>
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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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>     *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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