Document: draft-ietf-ips-iser-06.txt iSCSI Extensions for RDMA Specification Reviewer: Joel Halpern Review Date: January 12, 2007 IETF LC Date: January 3, 2007 Summary: This document is ready for publication as a Proposed Standard Comments: Nit: The references to "remote iSER Layer" as a participant in communication (in the definitions section) is odd. I've seen references to Layer Instances, Layer Entities, and other qualifiers. But It is unusual to see Layer by itself used this way. (Normally, a layer refers to the collection of communicating entities in that layer. Even the definitions in this document define it that way. A layer is neither local nor remote.) I suspect that most of these occurrences would be better as "Remote Peer" according to the definitions. (or remote iSER node or more verbosely the iSER layer at the remote node, as per later usage.) Nit: After the first occurrence of "RDMA-Capable Protocol" in the abstract, could you just put "(RCaP)" Nit: I would include all the acronyms referenced in the definitions (SN, RCaP, ...) into the Acronym list. Nit: I may have missed it, but I did not find a definitions (or description) of target and initiator before 2.4. I presume that this is well-defined in other RDMA specs. A paragraph here (or actual definitions in section 1) would be helpful. (Yes, this can be understood once one gets to 2.5. It is a matter of avoidin