[iSNS-discussion] Re: some thoughts about possible roadmap

[Nicholas A. B. <na...@ke...>]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:38 -0400, Ming Zhang wrote:
> Suggest to divide the development into at least 3 stages.
> 
> 1) implement core function, have a workable solution. a release 1.0
> 2) implement secondary functionalities. 
> 3) some 
> 
> Some stage 1 tasks are
> 
> * Code cleanup:
> 	Support Linux 32bit/64bit.
> * Support TCP for transport
> 

Also includes:

A) iSNS client taking command line arguements for various discovery
domain operations
B) iSNS client calling other userspace programs based upon what mode the
iSNS client is running in (initiator/target/both) (initiator-ctl in
iscsi-initiator-core.org's case) to perform actions based upon the
response, or asynchronous messages from the iSNS server.

Also, I need to read up on the iSNS RFC again, I don't think we need to
go above what the draft says (its UDP with application layer checksums
right?)

> Some stage 2 tasks are
> * SCN
> * for iSNS service discovery, 2.5.1, 2.5.3
> * snmp support by net-snmp
> 

As mentioned above, I need to read up on all of this.

> Some stage 3 tasks are
> * 2.7 iSNS server fail over and synchronization.
> 
> 
> Some extra thoughts.
> 
> 
> * Must provide a persistence-neutral way to store the iSNS database. It
> can be a Berkley DB or a complete openlDAP solution. so a wrapper is
> needed to isolate the main code from it.
> 

Berkley DB is what we want in this case.  OpenLDAP would be used for
storing the authentication information in a single locate.  The OpenLDAP
clients would be running on each Initiator node.

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