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Doc. No.: PR/97-061
Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us
Washington D.C., May 1997 - NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards) is announcing the 2nd public comment period for X3.304:199x. Development of this draft standard is being done in Technical Committee T10, I/O Interface - Lower Level.
The public review extends from May 23, 1997 to July 22, 1997.
This standard defines the multimedia command set extensions for all classes of SCSI devices. The commands specified within this standard define standard access and control to those features of the device that are used in multimedia applications (audio, video, animation). The entire standard command set available for a subject device shall is fully specified by the clause/clauses of this standard pertaining to that device, the applicable clauses of SCSI-3 Primary Commands, and any additional command set standards pertaining to the subject device as documented in the SCSI-3 family of standard.
The SCSI-3 command set and these extensions are transport independent and may be implemented across a wide variety of environments for which a SCSI-3 command mapping and delivery vehicle has been defined. Todate these include Fibre Channel, SCSI Parallel Interface, High Performance Serial Bus, and Serial Storage Architecture.
Submit all comments to: NCITS Secretariat, Attn.: Deborah J. Donovan, 1250 Eye Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005, Email: ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us. Send a copy to: ANSI, Attn.: BSR Center, 11 West 42nd St., New York, NY 10036 (wluk@ansi.org).
A call for possible patents and pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is also being issued. Please submit information on these issues to the NCITS Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20005. Email: NCITS @itic.nw.dc.us
Copies of X3.304:199x can be purchased from Global Engineering Documents, 15 Inverness Way East, Englewood, CO 80112- 5704. 1-800-854-7179 or 303-792-2181.
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