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Doc. No.: PR/97-063
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 public comment period for NCITS TR-20:199x. Development of this draft standard is being done in Technical Committee T11, I/O Interface - Device Level.
The public review extends from May 23, 1997 to July 22, 1997.
This Technical Report specifies Fibre Channel options between Public NL_Ports and FL_Ports, be-tween Public NL_Ports and other Public NL_Ports (whether on the same or different loops), and be-tween Public NL_Ports and N_Ports. This report also provides some direction for SCSI and IP options for communication across a fabric between NL_Ports and N_Ports.
This report is intended to serve as an implementation guide whose primary objective is to maximize the likelihood of interoperability between conforming implementations. This report prohibits and re-quires features which are optional as well as prohibiting the use of some non-optional features in the referenced ANSI standards.
A second objective of this Technical Report is to simplify implementations and their associated documentation, testing, and support requirements. This means that there will be some optional features which are not mutually exclusive, but are still prohibited or required solely for the purpose of this sim-plification.
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 NCITS TR-20:199x 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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