InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
INCITS Secretariat, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
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Email: incits@itic.org
Doc: in050584
Date: July 19, 2005
Project:
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Reply to: Barbara Bennett
Phone: 202-626-5743
email: bbennett@itic.org
| ACTION REQUESTED |
INCITS Executive Board
Members - For Seven-Day Call for Comments ending July 26, 2005
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INCITS Community for Information |
| Subject: |
SNIA's
Request for INCITS
Executive Board
Approval of a Project
Proposal for a New INCITS Fast Track
Standard, Information technology - SNIA
Multipath Management
API Specification |
Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has forwarded a
Project
Proposal for a
New INCITS
Fast Track
Standard, on Information technology - SNIA
Multipath Management
API Specification,
and is submitting the project to INCITS for further processing.
In accordance with the INCITS Fast Track Process, Section 5.9 of
the INCITS/RD-2, a call for comments is being issued.
5.9 INCITS Fast Track
Process
"..........The
INCITS Secretariat issues a call for comments on the proposal
and
INCITS members are asked to assess the proposal with respect to the
following
criteria:
- Is the proposed standard within the scope of INCITS?
- If there is a TC with responsibility for scope of this work, does
the
TC
have objections to continued processing?
If no objections are raised during this review, the developer will
then be invited to submit the following:
- Candidate standard.
- Memorandum of understanding, that may be negotiated by the INCITS
Secretariat
on behalf of INCITS, detailing: agreement to respond and participate in
accordance with Milestone
5 (Section
5.1.5);
agreement regarding availability and distribution of copies for public
review and balloting; agreement for maintenance responsibility in
accordance
with ANSI procedures; agreement that interpretations shall be
accomplished
in accordance with INCITS procedures and agreement that participation
in
further processing of the document be open to all directly and
materially
affected interests .
- Any other documentation the developer feels is relevant.
If objections are raised, the INCITS Secretariat will distribute
those objections to the Executive Board and the proposer. The
organization
submitting the candidate standard will be required to respond to the
objections
raised in addition to the other documentation specified above......."
Any INCITS Executive Board
member may request an appeal of the Project Proposal within
seven calendar-days.