Accredited Standards Committee *	X3, Information Technology

NEWS RELEASE

Doc. No.:	PR/96-094
Reply to:	Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us

X3 Announces the Approval of a New Project,
SCSI Primary Commands - 2 (SPC-2)

Washington D.C., November 1996 -- Accredited Standards Committee X3, Information Technology announces the approval of a new project, SCSI Primary Commands - 2 (SPC-2). Technical Committee X3T10 is responsible for work on this project and expects to complete the standard by July 1998.

The SCSI Primary Commands-2 standard is intended to include additional commands as well as existing SCSI-3 Primary Commands, and be applicable to both existing and new SCSI device types being developed. The participants in the project may decide to move some information in SCSI-3 Primary Commands to another standard or to make some information in SCSI-3 Primary Commands obsolete in SCSI Primary Commands-2.

In addition to the information currently in SCSI-3 Primary Commands, information that will be considered for incorporation include:

New additional sense code values,
New mode page definitions or new fields in existing mode pages,
New fields in the parameter data returned by the INQUIRY and REQUEST SENSE commands,
New vital product data pages,
New commands appropriate for all SCSI device types,
Changes to the processor device type model, and
Other capabilities that fit within the general scope of implementing the SPC-2 on a broad range of applications, and other capabilities that may be proposed during the development phase by the participants in the project.

Inquiries regarding this project (X3 Project 1236-D), should be sent to the Chairman of X3T10, Mr. Mr. John Lohmeyer, Symbios Logic, 4420 Arrowswest Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80907-3444. Email: john.lohmeyer@symbios.com.

The next meeting of X3T10 is January 6-10, 1997 in Dallas, TX. 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) on Project 1236-D 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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