Talk:Fibre Channel frame

rewrite needed

First of all, too many textual images in this article. Wiki supports tables, no need to draw them.

header 1	header 2	header 3
here	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	are some	row 2, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	cells

Secondly, is Wikipedia article a good place to mirror a INCITS FC-FS-2 standard? I've always thought about Wikipedia as a place to store useful knowledge. There is a subtle distinction.

To give the first example: "There are multiple SOF delimiters defined for Sequence control. SOFx is used to represent any SOF." OK, first things an experienced technical reader, will think of: why multiple? what is the basic difference between various SOFs? what is sequence control? is it very important in my life? do I need to care about that? This article doesn't even attempt to answer such natural questions.

--Kubanczyk 09:54, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[moved to bottom] I'm new to wiki editing so I find it difficult to create table with multiple rows & columns as in the table that I posted. Further I will try to learn how to use it & will avoid uploading images.

INCITS FC-FS-2 standard is a huge document of 500 pages so what I thought is to create a single page document where a newbie to Fiber Channel Protocol can learn about it easily.

Also Kindly guide me how I should improve my presentation by which I can help others by some means. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Itzmitit (talk • contribs) 10:17, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Itzmitit 10:19, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Your intention is a perfect one. A little work is needed to reach the goal "a single page document where a newbie to Fiber Channel Protocol can learn about it easily". A couple of advices then.

The language: In a standard you create reality, in encyclopedia you describe existing reality. In standard use "you shall do this or that", in encyclopedia "usually things are done in this or that way".

Next, instead of selecting some sentences from INCITS, just write a story for a FC newbie. Give only a few most important facts. If SOFx is not so important, just don't mention it at all. If you feel it is important get into them, get deeply, to the point when reader will be confident that he/she understands it. If you mention too much facts, text becomes noise.

Happy editing.

--Kubanczyk 10:41, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes I'll try to write on my own further & also will follow ur guidance further. Thanks. Itzmitit 03:30, 3 October 2007 (UTC)