>Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> I would like to register the T10 vendor ID of "OSOL" for OpenSolaris.
>
>Have you gotten the permission of the trademark holder for this usage or
>are you requesting the OGB request this permission?

Does "OSOL" infringe on the trademark?

>> My biggest concern here is how we as a group will manage the subsequent 
>> namespace.  I.e. registering the T10 vendor ID is useless if we do not 
>> come up with a way to manage other portions of the SCSI namespace.  
>> (E.g. figuring how to portion out SCSI device ids...)  I have a need for 
>> a project specific device id prefix, ala "SDcard-xxxx".
>> 
>> Does anyone in the storage community or OGB have any particular ideas 
>> how best to handle this?  It sort of sounds like creation of another 
>> sort of namespace authority.  (Btw, a similar registration authority is 
>> likely to be needed for other things as the project grows, e.g. device 
>> driver names, package names, other things?)
>
>Management of namespaces like this is traditionally handled by the ARC's.


Is that really the case?  What about the package name space or the
rpc procedure number namespace?  ARC barely, it at all, involved.

Casper


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