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InterNational
Committee for Information Technology Standards
INCITS Secretariat, Information
Technology Industry Council (ITI)
1250 Eye St. NW, Suite 200,
Washington, DC 20005
Telephone 202-737-8888; Fax
202-638-4922;
Email: incits@itic.org
Date: June 7, 2006
Project: 1642-R
Ref. Doc:
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 June 14, 2006
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| cc: |
INCITS
Community for Information |
| Subject: |
SNIA's
Request for INCITS
Executive Board
Approval of a Project
Proposal for Information technology - SNIA Storage Management
Initiative Specification (SNIA SMI-S), version 1.1.0, Revision of
INCITS
388:2004, using the INCITS Fast Track process |
Storage Networking
Industry Association (SNIA) has forwarded a
Project
Proposal for Information technology - SNIA
Storage Management
Initiative Specification (SNIA SMI-S), version 1.1.0, Revision of
INCITS
388:2004, and is submitting the project to
INCITS for further processing using the INCITS
Fast Track process.
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.