Accredited Standards Committee *	X3, Information Technology

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Doc. No.:	PR/96-089
Reply to:	Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us 


 
X3 Announces the Approval of Project Proposal, Fibre Channel Slotted Loop 
(FC-SL)


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 1232-D.

This project proposal recommends the development of a set of extended 
loop constructs beyond those defined in X3.272, FC-AL, and the definition 
of isochronous and time-deterministic services based on those extensions.  
Included within this scope are:

a) The definition of Quality of Service characteristics, and methods for 
controlling them;

b) The definition of capabilities necessary to monitor, manage and control 
the configuration of the loop, such as the definition of the length and 
frequency of defined time "slots";

c) Other capabilities which fit within the general scope of implementing 
support for the "real-time" class of applications

This proposed standard may influence the development of standards being 
created under presently approved X3T11 projects.  It is possible that this 
proposed standard might define desirable additional capabilities. 

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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