String Profile for Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) Names

Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) Protocol (Consolidated)

“…iSCSI names allow the use of international character sets, but uppercase characters are prohibited. The iSCSI stringprep profile [RFC3722] maps uppercase characters to lowercase and SHOULD be used to prepare iSCSI names from input that may include uppercase characters. No whitespace characters are used in iSCSI names; see [RFC3722] for details.…”

“…-It only contains characters allowed by the output of the iSCSI stringprep template (described in [RFC3722]). …”

Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI)

“…-It only contains characters allowed by the output of the iSCSI stringprep template (described in [RFC3722]). -The following characters are used for formatting iSCSI names: The stringprep process is described in [RFC3454]; iSCSI's use of the stringprep process is described in [RFC3722]. Stringprep is a method designed by the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) working group to translate human-typed strings into a format that can be compared as opaque strings.…”

“…iSCSI-name-value: A string of one or more characters that consist of minus, dot, colon, or any character allowed by the output of the iSCSI string-prep template as specified in [RFC3722] (see also Section 3.2.6.2 iSCSI Name Encoding).…”

Bootstrapping Clients using the Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) Protocol

“…The approved characters in the targetname field are stated in the iSCSI String Profile document [Bakke04].…”