Press Index Accredited Standards Committee * X3, Information Technology NEWS RELEASE Doc. No.: PR/96-097 Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us
Washington D.C., November 1996 -- Accredited Standards Committee X3, Information Technology announces approval of the revision of X3.271-1996 being developed within Technical Committee, X3T11 X3T11 expects to complete this work, Revised Fibre Channel Single-Byte Command Code Sets (SBCCS) Mapping Protocol (FC-SBR) by October 1997. The reference number for this project is 1239-D.
This project proposal recommends the development of a revision of X3.271-1996 to ensure harmonization with the latest SBCON dpANS. Included within this scope are:
a) Additional details and clarifications discovered during the creation process of the SBCON draft;
b) Other capabilities which fit within the general scope of implementing improvements and clarifications to the definitions contained in FC-SB.
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 [project 1239-D] 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 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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