Accredited Standards Committee *	X3, Information Technology

NEWS RELEASE

Doc. No.:	PR/96-088
Reply to:	Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us 


 
X3 Announces the Approval of Project Proposal, High-Performance Parallel 
Interface - 6400 Mbit/s Physical Switch Control (HIPPI-6400-SC) 


Washington D.C., November 1996 -- Accredited Standards Committee X3, 
Information Technology announces approval of this new project being 
developed within Technical Committee, X3T11, Device Level Interface.
The reference number for this project is 1231-D.

This project proposal recommends the development of a physical-layer 
switch standard with the following goals: 

- Support for 16 bit logical destination addresses.

- Ability to span multiple physical layer switches within a fabric. 

- Support for physical layer switches with differing numbers of ports, all 
  within the same fabric.

- Specified reserved addresses to aid address self-discovery, switch 
  management, and switch control. 

- Support for automatic configuration of switches within a fabric. 

- Support for 4 Virtual Channels in each direction on a HIPPI-6400 
  interface. 

Inquiries regarding this project and other Fibre Channel and HIPPI 
projects should be sent to the Chairman of X3T11, Mr. Roger Cummings, 
Distributed Processing Technology, 140 Candace Dr., Maitland, FL  32751.  
Email: cummings_roger@dpt.com.

The next meeting of X3T11 is December 2-6, 1996 in the Bloomington, 
MN.  All organizations and individuals who are materially or directly 
affected are invited to participate.

An initial call for possible patents and other pertinent issues (copyrights, 
trademarks) is now being issued.  Please submit information on these 
issues to the X3 Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington 
DC  20005. Email: x3sec@itic.nw.dc.us   FAX:  (202) 638-4922.


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