January ISO Report

Gene_Milligan at notes.seagate.com Gene_Milligan at notes.seagate.com
Thu Jan 22 07:17:11 PST 1998


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ISO Report1/98:

 T10:

JTC 1 N 5095, Proposal for a New Work Item: Information technology - SCSI-3
Block Commands (SBC)
has been distributed for a For JTC 1 TAG Letter Ballot with a JTC 1 TAG Due
Date: 01/13/98 for a JTC 1 Due Date: 02/26/98.

JTC 1 N 5107     08 Dec 1997 Proposal for a New Work Item:  Information
technology - SCSI-3 Interlocked Protocol (SIP) (interface protocols) has
been distributed along with JT/97-0594, the SC25/WG4 TAG recommendation is
due to the JTC 1 TAG Administrator by 28 January 1998 for the JTC 1 ballot
which closes 15 Mar 1998.

JTC 1 N 5108     08 Dec 1997 Proposal for a New Work Item:  Information
technology - SCSI-3 Primary Commands (SPC) (interface commands, command
requirements has been distributed along with JT/97-0595, the SC25/WG4 TAG
recommendation is due to the JTC 1 TAG Administrator  by 28 January 1998
for the JTC 1 ballot which closes 15 Mar 1998.

JTC 1 N 5127     16 Dec 1997 Proposal for a New Work Item:  Information
technology - SCSI-3 Multimedia Commands (MMC) (interface commands, command
requirements) has been distributed along with
JT/97-0596,the SC25/WG4 TAG recommendation is due to the JTC 1 TAG
Administrator by 05 February 1998 for the JTC 1 ballot which closes 23 Mar
1998.

CD 14766-361: IT ?Small Computer System Interface ? Part 361: Multimedia
Commands which is T10 MMC Rev 10A with the ANSI only stuff crossed out is
out for ballot. Comments are due to Gene Milligan by 2/6/98. The J1 TAG due
date is 3/6/98 and the SC 25 due date is 3/20/98.

CD 14766-211: IT ?Small Computer System Interface ? Part 211: Interlocked
Protocol which is T10 SIP Rev 10 with the ANSI only stuff crossed out is
out for ballot. Comments are due to Gene Milligan by 2/6/98. The J1 TAG due
date is 3/6/98 and the SC 25 due date is 3/20/98.

CD 14766-321: IT ?Small Computer System Interface ? Part 321: Block
Commands which is T10 SBC Rev 8a with the ANSI only stuff crossed out is
out for ballot. Comments are due to Gene Milligan by 2/6/98. The J1 TAG due
date is 3/6/98 and the SC 25 due date is 3/20/98. (I will include comments
with the b, c, and d changes.)

CD 14766-311: IT ?Small Computer System Interface ? Part 311: Primary
Commands which is T10 SPC Rev 11a with the ANSI only stuff crossed out is
out for ballot. Comments are due to Gene Milligan by 2/6/98. The J1 TAG due
date is 3/6/98 and the SC 25 due date is 3/20/98.

T11:

CD 14165-141: IT ? Fibre Channel ? Part 141: Fabric Generic Requirements
(FC-FG) which is X3.289 Rev 3 with the ANSI only stuff crossed out is out
for ballot. Comments are due to Gene Milligan by 2/6/98. The J1 TAG due
date is 3/6/98 and the SC 25 due date is 3/20/98.

ISO/IEC DIS 15917, Information technology - High-Performance Parallel
Interface - Serial specification
(HIPPI-Serial) is out for ballot. The JTC 1 TAG Due Date is 03/02/98 for a
JTC 1 Due Date: 04/16/98.

ISO/IEC DIS 15918, Information technology - High-Performance Parallel
Interface - Mapping to Asynchronous Transfer Mode is out for ballot. The
JTC 1 TAG Due Date: 03/02/98  for a JTC 1 Due Date: 04/16/98.

An international survey, based upon the abstracts, on the desirability of
international standards for  FC-AV, FC-AE, and FC-BB has a due date of
2/28/98.

There are technical differences between the published international
standard for HIPPI-SC and the ANSI version. T11 should address this issue
at the 2/12/98 meeting based upon a recommendation from T11.1 at their
2/11/98 meeting.

T12:

The conversion from domestic to available  IEC component specifications has
not yet completed. This still delays the completion of T12?s work.

General:

PDTR 14763-2 IT ? Implementation and operation of customer premises cabling
Part 2: Planning and installation is out for ballot. If T10, T11, or T12
wished to comment on it, the comments would be due 2/20/98.

PDTR 14763-3 IT ? Implementation and operation of customer premises cabling
Part 3: Testing of optical fibre cabling is out for ballot. If T10, T11, or
T12 wished to comment on it, the comments would be due 2/20/98.

PDTR 14763-4 IT ? Implementation and operation of customer premises cabling
Part 3: Testing of balanced copper cabling in the horizontal sub-system is
out for ballot. If T10, T11, or T12 wished to comment on it, the comments
would be due 2/20/98.

CD 11801 PDAM 3: ISO/IEC 11801: IT ? Generic Cabling for
Customer-Premises-Proposed Draft Amendment 3 is out for ballot. If T10,
T11, or T12 wished to comment on it, the comments would be due 2/20/98.

JTC 1/WG4 (this is not SC 25/WG 4) has requested that JTC1 approve a
workshop on guidelines for accessing data and metadata represented in SGML
|from databases, knowledge bases, and
search tools, organized by WG4 in conjunction with their meeting in Paris
in May 1998.

JTC 1 N 5134     22 Dec 1997 Policy on Electronic Document Distribution
Using the WWW has been distributed by the JTC 1 TAG Ad Hoc on IT
Implementation Strategy For review in preparation for the February Ad Hoc
meeting.

JTC 1 N 5159   07 Jan 1998 Approval of the Proposed New Work Item on Man
Multimedia Service
Has been distributed. I suspect it should be MAN. NCITS/L3 is the TAG.

JTC 1 N 5160     16 Jan 1998 on JTC 1 N 5029 - Application from the Desktop
Management Task Force Inc. (DMTF) for Recognition as a PAS Submitter has
been distributed .

JTC 1 N 5162     08 Jan 1998 General Overview of the GII Standards
Development Within ISO/IEC and ITU has been distributed recommendations for
US National Body vote on this ballot is due to the JTC 1 TAG Administrator
(jgarner at itic.nw.dc.us) no later than 28 January 1998 for JTC 1 TAG letter
ballot.

The IR met with the US TAG of TC 100. They have agreed to work towards
improved communications in the liaison activity. I understand that they
will seek to establish liaison with IEEE 1394 at least on the 1394 bridging
project in addition to the liaison they have with the 1394 Trade
Association. They also have approved a recommendation to TC 100 that,
should new items of potential conflict with JTC 1 occur, those items should
be resolved with JTC 1 on a case-by-case basis.


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