1.1 Glossary

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This document uses the following terms:

Direct Data Placement (DDP): For more information, see [RFC5040] section 2.1.

iWARP: For more information, see [RFC5040] section 2.1.

little-endian: Multiple-byte values that are byte-ordered with the least significant byte stored in the memory location with the lowest address.

peer: The entity being authenticated by the authenticator.

RDMA Network Interface Controller (RNIC): For more information, see [RFC5040] section 2.1.

RDMA Read: For more information, see [RFC5040] section 2.1.

RDMA Write: For more information, see [RFC5040] section 2.1.

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA): For more information, see [RFC5040] section 2.1.

Send: For more information see [RFC5040] section 2.4.

Steering Tag (STag): For more information, see [RFC5040] section 2.1.

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP): A protocol used with the Internet Protocol (IP) to send data in the form of message units between computers over the Internet. TCP handles keeping track of the individual units of data (called packets) that a message is divided into for efficient routing through the Internet.

Verbs: For more information, see [RFC5040] section 2.1.

MAY, SHOULD, MUST, SHOULD NOT, MUST NOT: These terms (in all caps) are used as defined in [RFC2119]. All statements of optional behavior use either MAY, SHOULD, or SHOULD NOT.