Accredited Standards Committee*	X3, Information Technology

NEWS RELEASE
Doc. No.:	PR/95-0072
Reply to:	Lynn Barra		(lbarra@itic.nw.dc.us)

X3 Announces the Approval of a New Project for Second Generation FC Generic Services Definition (FC-GS-2)

Washington D.C., July 1995 -- Accredited Standards Committee X3, 
Information Technology is announcing the approval of a new project 
being developed within X3T11, Device Level Interface.

This project recommends the development of a set of additional and enhanced services that will be used to support the management and 
control of Fibre Channel configurations such as:

Distributed directory services; Management services; Security services; and Operations management service which includes the interface that allows a human operator to perform command, management and control operations in a Fibre Channel configuration.

Where they exist, the protocols, formats and definitions contained in
existing directory and management standards will be used in FC-GS-2.

Inquiries should be sent to the Chairman of X3T11, Mr. Roger Cummings, 
Storage Technology Inc., 2270 South 88th Street, Louisville, CO  80028-
0211, roger_cummings@stortek.com.

An initial call for patents and pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is 
now being issued.  Please submit information on these issues to the X3 
Secretariat at the address below.

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