RFC 3723 (rfc3723) - Page 1 of 70
Securing Block Storage Protocols over IP
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Network Working Group B. Aboba
Request for Comments: 3723 Microsoft
Category: Standards Track J. Tseng
McDATA Corporation
J. Walker
Intel
V. Rangan
Brocade Communications Systems Inc.
F. Travostino
Nortel Networks
April 2004
Securing Block Storage Protocols over IP
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 (2004). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document discusses how to secure block storage and storage
discovery protocols running over IP (Internet Protocol) using IPsec
and IKE (Internet Key Exchange). Threat models and security
protocols are developed for iSCSI (Internet Protocol Small Computer
System Interface), iFCP (Internet Fibre Channel Storage Networking)
and FCIP (Fibre Channel over TCP/IP), as well as the iSNS (Internet
Storage Name Server) and SLPv2 (Service Location Protocol v2)
discovery protocols. Performance issues and resource constraints are
analyzed.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ................................................. 3
1.1. iSCSI Overview ......................................... 3
1.2. iFCP Overview .......................................... 4
1.3. FCIP Overview .......................................... 4
1.4. IPsec Overview ......................................... 4
1.5. Terminology ............................................ 6
1.6. Requirements Language .................................. 7
Aboba, et al. Standards Track