A preview of next generation MCTP for OCP platform management communication infrastructure

Presented by Hemal Shah (Broadcom) | Yuval Itkin (nVidia) | Patrick Caporale (Lenovo)
MCTP 1.x has been widely used as a transport for platform communications in today's OCP server platforms. The scalability of the number of endpoints, security, reliability, and application data transfer needs are driving the requirements for the next generation transport, MCTP 2.0, for OCP platform management communication infrastructure. The DMTF is in the process of developing the MCTP 2.0 specification. In this talk, we will provide a preview of MCTP 2.0 requirements and features and the applicability of MCTP 2.0 to OCP platforms.