T10 continues to run smoothly with 57 approved projects, of which 40 are in maintenance mode. Over the last year, T10 voted to withdraw 6 standards and/or technical reports. Most of the active projects are related to the SCSI family of standards. T10 membership is at 40 organizations, down from 48 last year.

Over the last few years, I/O storage interconnects have moved to serial technology for new applications. Parallel SCSI and parallel ATA shipments have peaked and are gradually declining in favor of SAS and SATA.

Serial technology inherently enables larger topologies, both in distance and in numbers of devices. These larger topologies have required some enhancements in the SCSI architecture and the command sets (e.g., access controls, extended copy commands, persistent reservations, etc.).

• Fibre Channel Protocol - 3 (FCP-3): INCITS 416-2006 was published
• Serial Attached SCSI - 1.1 (SAS-1.1): INCITS 417-2006 was published
• MultiMedia Command Set - 5 (MMC-5): INCITS 430-200x is at INCITS for approval
• SCSI / ATA Translation (SAT): INCITS 431-200x is at INCITS for approval

None expected.

None expected.

1. Previous year's meetings

Number	Date	Location
#74	July 13, 2006	Colorado Springs, CO
#75	September 14, 2006	Nashua, NH
#76	November 9, 2006	Las Vegas, NV
#77	January 18, 2007	Lake Mary, FL
#78	March 15, 2007	Memphis, TN
#79	May 10, 2007	Bellevue, WA

2. Next year's planned meetings

http://www.t10.org/meeting.htm

INCITS T11 http://www.t11.org/

INCITS T13 http://www.t13.org/

SFF Committee http://www.sffcommittee.org/

SCSI Trade Association (STA) http://www.scsita.org/

Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) http://www.snia.org/

1. Officers

Position	Name	Organization	Training date
Chair	John Lohmeyer	LSI	July 2006
Vice Chair	George Penokie	IBM	December 2002
Secretary	Ralph Weber	ENDL Texas	December 2002
International Representative	Gary Robinson	EMC	May 2002
Vocabulary Representative	open




2. Membership

T10 Attendance Database: http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/members.txt

T10's efforts are now totally focused on using serial interfaces for storage devices: SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI.

There is special interest in SAS and SATA, because these two interfaces share the same physical layer. Systems integrators can build products that use either SATA or SAS disk drives, depending on cost, performance, and reliability objectives.

The SCSI command sets are evolving to encompass the latest developments in storage (e.g., much larger address spaces, new optical devices, and storage controllers) as well as refinements to deal with current interconnect issues (e.g., networked storage, security, and power management).

Financial Statement

The INCITS Secretariat maintains an escrow account on T10's behalf to pay for technical editing services. See the T10 Procedure for Funding Technical Editors http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/document.95/95-148r0.pdf for details of how this account is administered. The current account balance as of September 17, 2003 is $31,830.75. I assume this amount is unchanged since September 2003 as T10 has not requested any expenditure nor have additional funds been collected.