X3T9.2/89-69




                                                                 John B. Lohmeyer 
                                                                 NCR Corporation  
                                                                 3718 N. Rock Rd. 
                                                                 Wichita, KS 67226
May 16, 1989

Mr. Arnold J. Roccati
EG&G WASC, Inc.
1396 Piccard Drive
Rockville, MD 20850-4308

Subject:       Your comments on X3T9 Letter Ballot (XT9/89-41) on forwarding
               SCSI-2.
Reference:     Roccati comments (X3T9.2/89-067)


Dear Arnold,

It is good to hear from you again.  I have missed your direct participation in 
X3T9.2, but am glad that you still are interested in the SCSI-2 project.

I appreciate your efforts in commenting on SCSI-2;  the comments have resulted 
in an improved document.

The SCSI-2 editors have addressed your comments as follows:

1-3,14,19.  These comments deal with the style of the document.  We do intend 
to follow the correct style in a subsequent revision.  However, for now, we 
are using a software tool to generate section, figure, and table numbers.  
This tool is not flexible enough to exactly conform to the ANSI style.  During 
the final editing we will convert to the correct style. 

By the way, it is very likely that we will not publish this document in the 
ANSI style.  Efforts are under way to merge the ANSI and ISO styles.  We will 
probably convert to ISO style and publish one document for both ISO and ANSI.

4.   The disclaimer on the front cover has been replaced by the new X3T9 
standard disclaimer.

5,7. The connector experts assured the committee that the figures are correct 
and it is normal industry practice to dimension connectors this way.  The 
socket dimensions are for the entire opening in the plastic and do not show 
the actual contact dimensions.  A note was be added to the figures to make 
this clearer.

6.   Accepted.  The editors will make this change in a subsequent revision.  
They do not have the necessary software tools to revise the figures at this 
point in time.

8.   Accepted, except both figures should use the word "contact".  The editors 
will make this change in a subsequent revision.  They do not have the 
necessary software tools to revise the figures at this point in time.

9-13,15,17,21,24.   Accepted.

16.  Accepted.  For now, we will retain the QIC references -- hopefully some 
of these will become ANSI documents.

18.  The reference to the identify field was deleted.

20.  Partially accepted.  The "Red Book" is now referenced in the glossary and 
the "Yellow Book" references IEC 908.  Unfortunately there is no IEC reference 
for the Red Book.  Adding these documents to Section 2 is still under 
consideration;  the question is how to properly reference the Red Book.

22.  Accepted, except the disclaimer (for ANSI) goes in front of the first 
appendix and applies to all of the appendixes.  In ISO, annexes may or may not 
be part of the requirements of the standard and each one has a disclaimer if 
it is not part of the requirements.

23.  Accepted.  Unfortunately, the editors only fixed the first table in this 
appendix.  We will do the other table in rev 10.  (There is always something 
more to do...)

Once again, thank you for your comments.

Sincerely,




John B. Lohmeyer, Chairman X3T9.2


cc:  Mr. Del Shoemaker, Chairman X3T9