On Jun 15, 2009, at 9:54 PM, Ryan, Jim wrote:
- There was no standards body associated with the proposal.
Clarification question on this -- what exactly does this statement mean? I ask because if you take that statement to the extreme, many things in OFED may not qualify.
For example, the uDAPL software API is standardized, so I assume it's fine. The iWARP and IB hardware layers are standardized, but are there standardized software APIs? Specifically: the verbs software stack is not standardized by any standards body, is it? (what is the exact definition of "standards body", anyway -- does consensus of OFED members count?)
These may be naive questions (I don't follow these APIs at all), but is the RDS API standardized? Is SRP? Are the various tools that are shipped in OFED standardized?
I'm sure we don't want to take all these things out of OFED, but some clarification of the rules might be useful.
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