--- James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:

You can submit it as your position paper, certainly.

It is not a "position" paper.  There is too much SCSI
Architecture Model (SAM) in it.  But from linux-scsi point of view
I guess it is.

However, the object of this event is not to collect a list of papers to
be presented: it's not a conference with hundreds of attendees (if you
want to present to an audience, you should submit to FAST, which is such
a conference, with which we're co-located).  It's a roundtable type
discussion with 20-25 people in the field; plus some plenary sessions to
get input and ideas from people working on the filesystem layer.  The
object is to stimulate discussion of important issues (which may be
guided by papers or other materials).  The position paper thing is only
to ensure people actually have things they want to discuss (and to allow
the programme committee to pick the attendees if there would be too
many).

Ok, so this is targeted at the same 20-25 Linux people who attended
the "Vancouver Storage summit" and you're just using FAST to co-locate.

I incorrectly assumed that this was targeted at storage professionals
not necessarily Linux related, but with Linux exposure so as to hear
new ideas and pathways.  I also missed to see the "by-invitation" clause
at the top.

Thanks for the explanation!
   Luben