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From: Black_David@emc.com
To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: More iSNS changes coming
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:25:58 -0500
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In the process of getting the iSNS draft in shape for
submission to the ADs/IESG, some text changes have
become necessary that may not be expected.  These are
not supposed to be functional or requirements changes,
but they will impact the text beyond what typically
happens in this draft cleanup stage:

(1) iSNS uses Block Structured Descriptor (BSD) values from
	SLP.  The draft currently says that 0x002 is the
	only defined value - that turns out to be incorrect, as
	there are and will be other values (to appear shortly
	in an IANA registry).  The draft text will be rewritten
	to say that support for BSD value 0x002 is "MUST implement"
	as part of the iSNS authentication block for all iSNS
	clients, and likewise for iSNS servers that use
	broadcast or multicast.

(2) In order to simplify IANA's task in dealing with
	allocation of new iSNS Attributes, the funky
	characters in the T column of the attribute
	table in Section 7.1 will be removed from that
	table; the text linked to them will be expanded to
	say which attributes it applies to.

Thanks,
--David

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