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Network Working Group M. Krueger Request for Comments: 3980 M. Chadalapaka Updates: 3720 R. Elliott Category: Standards Track Hewlett-Packard Corp.

                                                         February 2005
         T11 Network Address Authority (NAA) Naming Format
                        for iSCSI Node Names

Status of this Memo

 This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
 Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
 improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
 Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
 and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

 Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005).

Abstract

 Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) is a SCSI transport
 protocol that maps the SCSI family of protocols onto TCP/IP.  This
 document defines an additional iSCSI node name type format to enable
 use of the "Network Address Authority" (NAA) worldwide naming format
 defined by the InterNational Committee for Information Technology
 Standards (INCITS) T11 - Fibre Channel (FC) protocols and used by
 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).  This document updates RFC 3720.

Table of Contents

 1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
 2.  Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
 3.  Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
 4.  iSCSI NAA Name Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     4.1.  Type "naa." - Network Address Authority. . . . . . . . .  3
 5.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     5.1.  IQN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     5.2.  SRP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     5.3.  SAS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     5.4.  NAA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     5.5.  InfiniBand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     5.6.  INCITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     5.7.  T10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     5.8.  T11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5

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 6.  Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
 7.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     7.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     7.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
 Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8

1. Introduction

 This document discusses the motivation for adding an NAA type format
 as an iSCSI node naming format and defines this format in accordance
 with the iSCSI naming conventions [RFC3720].  Defining this format
 will enable SCSI storage devices containing both iSCSI ports and SAS
 ports to use the same NAA-based SCSI device name.

2. Background

 A number of networked transports currently provide port abstractions
 to the SCSI protocol.  These transports all incorporate some form of
 world-wide unique name construction format.  The following table
 summarizes the current protocols and their naming formats.
        SCSI Transport Protocol     Naming Format
     -----------------------------------------------
    |                            | EUI-64| NAA |IQN |
    |----------------------------|-------|-----|----|
    |    iSCSI (Internet SCSI)   |   X   |     | X  |
    |----------------------------|-------|-----|----|
    |     FCP (Fibre Channel)    |       |  X  |    |
    |----------------------------|-------|-----|----|
    | SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) |       |  X  |    |
    |----------------------------|-------|-----|----|
    |    SRP (for InfiniBand)    |   X   |     |    |
     -----------------------------------------------
 The INCITS T11 Framing and Signaling Specification [FC-FS] defines a
 format called the Network Address Authority (NAA) format for
 constructing worldwide unique identifiers that use various identifier
 registration authorities.  This identifier format is used by the
 Fibre Channel and SAS SCSI transport protocols.  As most existing
 networked SCSI ports today are either FC or SAS, the NAA format is
 the most commonly used identifier format for SCSI transports.

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3. Motivation

 If iSCSI included a naming format that allowed direct representation
 of an NAA-format name, it would facilitate construction of a target
 device name that translates easily across multiple namespaces for a
 SCSI storage device containing ports served by different transports.
 This document defines an NAA type iSCSI naming format so that one NAA
 identifier can be assigned as the basis for the SCSI device name for
 a SCSI target with both SAS ports and iSCSI ports.
 INCITS T10 SCSI has defined a string format SCSI target device name
 in [SPC3] that is reported in the VPD page 83 device identifier page.
 [SAM3] specifies that a SCSI device shall have no more than one
 (i.e., zero or one) SCSI device name in the SCSI name string format
 regardless of the number of SCSI transport protocols supported by the
 SCSI device.  Adding the INCITS T11-defined NAA format as a defined
 type for iSCSI device names would make the iSCSI device naming format
 more consistent across all current SCSI networked transports that
 define an NAA format SCSI device name.  This would facilitate the
 creation of SCSI device names that are transport-independent.  It
 would also contribute to the creation of SCSI Logical Unit (LU) names
 based on this SCSI device name.

4. iSCSI NAA Name Structure

 This document defines an additional iSCSI name type:
 type "naa." - the remainder of the string is an INCITS T11 defined
               Network Address Authority identifier in ASCII-encoded
               hexadecimal.

4.1. Type "naa." - Network Address Authority

 [FC-FS] defines a format for constructing globally unique
 identifiers, referred to as the Network Address Authority (NAA)
 format.
 The iSCSI NAA naming format is "naa.", followed by an NAA identifier
 represented in ASCII-encoded hexadecimal digits.

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 An example of an iSCSI name with a 64-bit NAA value follows:
       Type  NAA identifier (ASCII-encoded hexadecimal)
       +--++--------------+
       |  ||              |
       naa.52004567BA64678D
    An example of an iSCSI name with a 128-bit NAA value follows:
       Type  NAA identifier (ASCII-encoded hexadecimal)
       +--++------------------------------+
       |  ||                              |
       naa.62004567BA64678D0123456789ABCDEF
 The iSCSI NAA naming format might be used in an implementation when
 the infrastructure for generating NAA worldwide unique names is
 already in place because the device contains both SAS and iSCSI SCSI
 ports.
 The NAA identifier formatted in an ASCII-hexadecimal representation
 has a maximum size of 32 characters (128 bit NAA format).  As a
 result, there is no issue with this naming format exceeding the
 maximum size for iSCSI node names.

5. Terminology

5.1. IQN

 iSCSI qualified name, an identifier format defined by the iSCSI
 protocol [RFC3720].

5.2. SRP

 SCSI RDMA Protocol.  SRP defines a SCSI protocol mapping onto the
 InfiniBand (tm) Architecture and/or functionally similar cluster
 protocols [SRP].

5.3. SAS

 Serial Attached SCSI.  The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) standard
 contains both a physical layer compatible with Serial ATA, and
 protocols for transporting SCSI commands to SAS devices and ATA
 commands to SATA devices [SAS].

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5.4. NAA

 Network Address Authority, a naming format defined by the INCITS T11
 Fibre Channel protocols [FC-FS].

5.5. InfiniBand

 An I/O architecture originally intended to replace PCI and to address
 high performance server interconnectivity [IB].

5.6. INCITS

 INCITS stands for InterNational Committee of Information Technology
 Standards.  The INCITS has a broad standardization scope within the
 field of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT),
 encompassing storage, processing, transfer, display, management,
 organization, and retrieval of information.  INCITS serves as ANSI's
 Technical Advisory Group for the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1
 (JTC 1).  See http://www.incits.org.

5.7. T10

 A technical committee within INCITS that develops standards and
 technical reports on I/O interfaces, particularly the series of SCSI
 (Small Computer Systems Interface) standards.  See
 http://www.t10.org.

5.8. T11

 A technical committee within INCITS responsible for standards
 development in the areas of Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI),
 High-Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) and Fibre Channel (FC).
 See http://www.t11.org.

6. Security Considerations

 This iSCSI naming format does not introduce any new security concerns
 for the iSCSI protocol beyond those of the other iSCSI naming
 formats.  Please refer to [RFC3720], Section 8, for information on
 the security considerations for the iSCSI protocol.

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7. References

7.1. Normative References

 [RFC3720]  Satran, J., Meth, K., Sapuntzakis, C., Chadalapaka, M.,
            and E. Zeidner, "Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
            (iSCSI)", RFC 3720, April 2004.
 [FC-FS]    INCITS 373-2003, Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling
            Interface (FC-FS).

7.2. Informative References

 [SPC3]     T10/1416-D, SCSI Primary Commands - 3 (SPC-3).
 [SAM3]     T10/1561-D, SCSI Architecture Model - 3 (SAM-3).
 [IB]       InfiniBand{tm} Architecture Specification, Vol. 1, Rel.
            1.0.a, InfiniBand Trade Association
            (http://www.infinibandta.org).
 [SRP]      INCITS 365-2002, SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP).
 [SAS]      INCITS 376-2003, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).

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Authors' Addresses

 Marjorie Krueger
 Hewlett-Packard Company
 8000 Foothills Blvd.
 Roseville, CA 95747-5668, USA
 EMail: marjorie_krueger@hp.com
 Mallikarjun Chadalapaka
 Hewlett-Packard Company
 8000 Foothills Blvd.
 Roseville, CA 95747-5668, USA
 EMail: cbm@rose.hp.com
 Rob Elliott
 Hewlett-Packard Company
 MC 140801
 PO Box 692000
 Houston, TX 77269-2000, USA
 EMail: elliott@hp.com

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