Bootstrapping Clients using the Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) Protocol
RFC 4173
Approval announcement
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Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>,
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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Bootstrapping Clients using the iSCSI
Protocol' to Proposed Standard
The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Bootstrapping Clients using the iSCSI Protocol '
<draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-boot-13.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the IP Storage Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Allison Mankin and Magnus Westerlund.
A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-boot-13.txt
Technical Summary
This specification describes a standard mechanism to enable clients to
bootstrap themselves using the iSCSI protocol. The goal of this
standard is to enable iSCSI boot clients to obtain the information to
open an iSCSI session with the iSCSI boot server. It is possible that
all the information is not available at the very outset, so the memo
describes steps to obtain the information required to bootstrap
clients off an iSCSI boot server. Since iSCSI allows a general Internet
to be interposed between the clients and server, a secure design is
introduced for these steps.
Working Group Summary
The original version of the boot protocol was found by Security Area
to have serious security flaws and was returned to the working group
for an overhaul. A design team developed a completely new approach
during an intensive effort, developed working group consensus in
several careful sessions, and discussed (also with care) the
issues of implementability. There was good agreement by
and members of the SCSI standards community that this solution
would be adopted and implemented.
Protocol Quality
The specification was reviewed for the IESG by the Operations
Directorate and Allison Mankin. Margaret Wasserman reviewed the
IPv6 issues. Bernard Aboba led the effort in response to the the first
IESG review.
RFC Editor Notes
Section 5 -
OLD:
An iSCSI boot client which does not know its IP address at power-on
may acquire its IP address via BOOTP or DHCP (v4 or v6).
NEW:
An iSCSI boot client which does not know its IP address at power-on
may acquire its IP address via BOOTP or DHCP (v4 or v6), or
via IPv6 address autoconfiguration.
OLD:
This is done using the variable length option named Root Path.
NEW:
This is done using the variable length option named Root Path
[Alexander93, Reynolds93].