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MS is "endorsing" a standard

Let's see how compliant MS is going to be on the iSCSI standard.

In the past MS has shown time and again, that its standards "adoption" means to introduce violations of the public standartd so that its systems can work either with an unfair advantage over truely standard compliant systems or comfuse other systems and make them reset their operation, effectively nocking them out of operation.

For instance, the Fiber Channel (FC) based storage s/w by MS would try to OWN and often destroy data on LUNs of disk RAIDS that didn't belong to it. Storage industry experience attests to this (un?)intentional interoperability problems.

Another example is the TCP socket implementation expolited by MS http servers which could abort TCP connections (violating the 2 MSL time out) so that they could reuse the ports immediately.

Another example is the Kerberos authentication protocol that was bastardized so that only MS windows could used it,

Another example is the MS DNS interoperability problems.

I guess for the MS engineers, "innovation" means "take a public standard and implement it in a way that does not interoperate", thus defeating the basic precept of what a public standard should be.

And, "standards making" means making it exceedingly hard to impossible to allow other systems to interoperate.

Let's see how much the MS "iSCSI" will comply to iSCSI.

Cheers and happy "innovations"

Posted by: michael-t   Posted on: 11/19/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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