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Doc. No.: PR/97-103
Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us

Washington D.C., August 1997 - NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards) announces approval of this new project being developed within Technical Committee, T11, I/O Interface - Device Level. The reference number for this project is 1245-D.

This project proposal recommends the development of a high-performance data transfer protocol standard with the following goals:

- Small control messages to pre-arrange buffers at each end of the transfer.
- A message syntax that allows hardware-based message delivery to the pre-arranged buffers at the receiving end.
- Separate logical control and data channels, which may use different physical media, or may share a single physical medium.
- Support for "Get" and "Put" operations.

- Support for using buffer indices and 64-bit addresses. - Parameters exchanged between the end devices for port selection, transfer identification, and operation validation. - Efficient mapping between the sender's and receiver's natural buffer sizes. - Provisions for re-sending partial transfers for error recovery.

Inquiries regarding this project [project 1245-D] and other Fibre Channel and HIPPI projects should be sent to the Chairman of T11, Mr. Roger Cummings, Distributed Processing Technology, 140 Candace Dr., Maitland, FL 32751. Email: cummings_roger@dpt.com.

The next meeting of T11 is October 9, 1997 in Tucson, Arizona. 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 NCITS Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20005. Email: ncits@itic.nw.dc.us FAX: (202) 638-4922.

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