Minutes of X3T10 Plenary Meeting #16 - July 18, 1996

Lohmeyer, John JLOHMEYE at cossymwest.co.symbios.com
Tue Jul 23 17:54:00 PDT 1996


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Minutes of X3T10 Plenary Meeting #16 in Colorado Springs, CO   
X3T10/96-203r0

Accredited Standards Committee*
X3, Information Technology
                                    Doc. No.: X3T10/96-203r0
                                        Date: July 18, 1996
                                     Project:
                                   Ref. Doc.:
                                    Reply to: John Lohmeyer

To:        Membership of X3T10

From:      Ralph Weber, Secretary X3T10
           John Lohmeyer, Chair X3T10

Subject:   Minutes of X3T10 Plenary Meeting #16
           Colorado Springs, CO -- July 18, 1996

                            Agenda

1. Opening Remarks

2. Approval of Agenda

3. Attendance and Membership

4. Approval of Minutes - May Meeting Ft. Lauderdale, FL (X3T10/96-
  168r1)

5. Document Distribution

6. Call for Patents

7. Review of Old Action Items

8. Subgroup and/or Project Status Reports
  8.1 Project Status Summary and X3/OMC Liaison [Lohmeyer]
  8.2 X3T10.1 Task Group Report [Lamers]
  8.3 SCSI Common Access Method (CAM) {Project 792-D} [Dallas]
  8.4 SCSI-3 Parallel Interface (SPI) Status {Project 855-D}
     [Lamers]
  8.5 SPI Amendment (SPIAmnd) {Project 0855-D} [Johansson/Lamers}
  8.6 SCSI-3 Interlocked Protocol (SIP) Status {Project 856-D}
     [Penokie]
  8.7 SCSI Common Access Method -3 (CAM-3) Status {Project 990-D}
     [Dallas]
  8.8 SCSI-3 Serial Bus Protocol (SBP) Status {Project 992-D}
     [Roberts]
  8.9 SCSI-3 Fiber Channel Protocol (FCP) Status {Project 993-D}
     [Snively]
  8.10 SCSI-3 Architecture Model (SAM) Status {Project 994-D}
     [Monia]
  8.11 SCSI-3 Primary Commands (SPC) Status {Project 995-D} [Weber]
  8.12 SCSI-3 Block Commands (SBC) Status {Project 996-D} [Milligan]
  8.13 SCSI-3 Stream Commands (SSC) Status {Project 997-D} [Lappin]
  8.14 SCSI-3 Graphics Commands (SGC) Status {Project 998-D}
     [Tewell]
  8.15 SCSI-3 Medium Changer Commands (SMC) Status {Project 999-D}
     [Oetting]
  8.16 SCSI-3 Controller Commands (SCC) Status {Project 1047-D}
     [Penokie]
  8.17 Multimedia Command Set (MMC) Status {Project 1048-D}
     [Roberts]
  8.18 SCSI-3 Fast-20 Parallel Interface (Fast-20) {Project 1071-D}
     [Lamers]
  8.19 SCSI Parallel Interface - 2 (SPI-2) {Project 1142-D} [Ham]
  8.20 SCSI Enhanced Parallel Interface (EPI) Technical Report
     {Project 1143-D} [Ham]
  8.21 SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol - 2 (FCP-2) {Project 1144-D}
     [Snively]
  8.22 Boot Considerations Technical Report {Project 1154-DT}
     [Penman]
  8.23 SCSI-3 Serial Bus Protocol 2 (SBP-2) {Project 1155-D}
     [Johansson]
  8.24 SCSI Architecture Model - 2 (SAM-2) {Project 1157-D [Monia]
  8.25 SCSI-3 Enclosure Commands (SES) {Project 1212-D} [Snively]
  8.26 SCSI Controller Commands (SCC-2) {Project xxxx-D} [Penokie]
  8.27 High Availability Profile (HAP) Technical Report {Project
     xxxx-DT} [Hagerman]

9. Old Business
  9.1 Results of SPC Letter Ballot (96-012)
  9.2 Electronic Notification Procedure (95-146r2) [Lohmeyer]

10. New Business
  10.1 MMC-2 Command Set Project Proposal (96-185) [Roberts]
  10.2 Actions on Working Group Recommendations
     10.2.1 Request for  DEVICE INTERNAL RESET ASC/ASCQ (96-192r0)
       [Monia]
     10.2.2 Clarification of sleep mode (96-140) [Penokie]
     10.2.3 RESERVE(6) and RELEASE(6) (96-183) [Stephens]
     10.2.4 READ(6) (96-183) [Stephens]
     10.2.5 Change to Device Identification VPD Page (96-214)
       [DeKoning]
     10.2.6 Several SSC Proposals [Lappin/Stephens]
  10.3 Project Proposal for SCSI Unified Parallel Requirements
     (SUPR) (96-188) [Lamers/Lohmeyer/Ham]
  10.4 Terminator Issue [Milligan]
  10.5 RESERVE ELEMENT(6) and RESERVE ELEMENT(6) [Oetting]

11. ISO
  11.1 ISO Report [Milligan]

12. Liaison Reports
  12.1 X3T11 Liaison Report [Cummings]
  12.2 X3T13 Liaison Report [Milligan]
  12.3 SFF Industry Group [Allan]
  12.4 IEEE 1394 [Johansson]
  12.5 IEEE P1285 Status
  12.6 PCMCIA Report []
  12.7 SCSI Trade Association (STA) [Jones]

13. Review of Action Items

14. Meeting Schedule
  14.1 Authorization of Working Group Meetings

15. Adjournment



                         Results of Meeting

1.   Opening Remarks

John Lohmeyer, the X3T10 Chair, called the meeting to order at 1:00
p.m., Thursday July 18, 1996.  He thanked Symbios Logic for allowing
him to host a meeting close to home.

John said that X3 Subgroup Membership forms and the X3T10 Mailing
Subscription form were available on the document table.  He said that
people should use the X3 forms to insure the X3 Secretariat has the
latest membership information.  These forms should be mailed directly
to the X3 Secretariat.

As is customary, the people attending introduced themselves and a
copy of the attendance list was circulated.  Copies of the draft
agenda and general information on X3T10 were made available to those
attending.

2.   Approval of Agenda

The draft agenda was approved with the following additions:

     10.2.1 Request for  DEVICE INTERNAL RESET ASC/ASCQ (96-192r0)
            [Monia]
     10.2.2 Clarification of sleep mode (96-140) [Penokie]
     10.2.3 RESERVE(6) and RELEASE(6) (96-183) [Stephens]
     10.2.4 READ(6) (96-183) [Stephens]
     10.2.5 Change to Device Identification VPD Page (96-214)
            [DeKoning]
     10.2.6 Several SSC Proposals [Lappin]
     10.4 Terminator Issue [Milligan]
     10.5 RESERVE ELEMENT(6) and RESERVE ELEMENT(6) [Oetting]

3.   Attendance and Membership

The membership requirements were reviewed.  X3 rules permit one vote
per organization.  An individual from a new organization must attend
two out of three consecutive plenary meetings.  He/she may apply for
voting membership the second meeting via a letter to the Chair of
X3T10.  The individual may vote at the second plenary meeting.
Working group meetings do not count toward attendance requirements.

Organizations must also pay the X3 Service Fee ($300) to maintain
membership.  The ANSI International Program Fee (also $300) is billed
at the same time.

The Chair said he had sent letters to 8 people from 2 organizations
informing them that their membership was in jeopardy due to non-
attendance (see 96-024r0) and that their membership would be
terminated if they did not attend this meeting.  All organizations
were represented at this meeting.

Since the last meeting, the X3 Secretariat has ruled that Madison
Cable is a separate organization from AMP since they have a separate
board of directors (even though they are wholly owned by AMP).  John
announced that Sony had been re-instated at this meeting.

The X3T10 membership during the meeting was 51 organizations up from
49 organizations last time.  Following the meeting, Berg Electronics
joined the committee, bringing the total membership up to 52
organizations. Enclosure (1) is the list of the people present at the
meeting and enclosure (2) is the current X3T10 membership list.

4.   Approval of Minutes - May Meeting Ft. Lauderdale, FL (X3T10/96-
168r1)

The minutes were approved as written.

5.   Document Distribution

Members who have any problems with their mailing subscription should
deal directly with Katrina Gray (kgray at itic.nw.dc.us) (202) 626-5741.

Larry Lamers requested that all documents for the next mailing be in
his hands in electronic format by 10:30 a.m. on Thursday July 25,
1996.  Documents received after this time will go into a subsequent
mailing.

Larry Lamers reminded the committee of the requirements for document
submission to be included in the committee mailing.  Since X3T10
meets its document archiving requirements by including the X3
Secretariat on the mailing list, documents included in the mailing
must be suitable for archiving.  This means that native-format
electronic originals with proper identification must be submitted.
Document X3T10/95-147 contains the list of requirements for
submissions.  Document X3T10/95-361r0 contains instructions for
expeditious delivery of documents to Larry.

The electronic copies can be emailed directly to Larry (at
ljlamers at corp.adaptec.com), placed on the SCSI BBS (719-533-7950), or
they can be ftp'd to ftp.symbios.com and placed in the
/pub/standards/io/incoming directory. In the latter two cases, please
also send an email to Larry (at ljlamers at aol.com) informing him of
the exact file name and location of the file.

As usual, minutes are also available on the SCSI BBS (719-533-7950)
and will be distributed to the SCSI Reflector.

To be added to the SCSI Reflector, send an email to
majordomo at symbios.com with the line 'subscribe scsi' in the message
body.  The X3 Secretariat maintains a World Wide Web page at
http://www.x3.org.  Symbios Logic maintains a World Wide Web page on
behalf of X3T10 at http://www.symbios.com/x3t10.

The current document register is enclosure (3).

6.   Call for Patents

This is a regular agenda item to identify any potential patent issues
with developing standards.

A document is available from ANSI, "Procedures for the Development
and Coordination of American National Standards", at no charge.  This
document is also on the WWW at http://www.x3.org/help/ansi_sdo.html.
Annex I contains the ANSI patent policy.

7.   Review of Old Action Items

138) Larry Lamers will prepare a SPI amendment document for review
     and consideration at the May meeting.  Complete
146) John Lohmeyer will forward the SCC-2 Project Proposal (96-152r0)
     to X3 for further processing.  Complete
147) John Lohmeyer will forward the project proposal for a High
     Availability Technical Report  (96-151r1) to X3 for further
     processing.  Complete
148) John Lohmeyer will add an agenda item to review the mandatory
     status of the SBC READ(6) and other commands to the July SCSI
     Working Group agenda. Complete
149) Gene Milligan and John Lohmeyer will send a letter to the JTC-1
     TAG expressing concerns about the scope and activities of
     IEC/TC100.  Complete
150) John Lohmeyer will write a letter responding to X3T13/96-009
     letter as described by the committee motion.  Complete
151) John Lohmeyer will add an agenda item to review the MMC-2
     project proposal to the Plenary agenda. Complete

8.   Subgroup and/or Project Status Reports

8.1  Project Status Summary and X3/OMC Liaison [Lohmeyer]

John Lohmeyer said that the current X3T10 project status summary was
included in the X3T10 Information Packages and will be included in
the mailing as usual.

8.2  X3T10.1 Task Group Report [Lamers]

Larry Lamers, the X3T10.1 chair, made an oral report to the committee
and provided the following electronic report for the minutes:

                           X3T10.1 Report
                     Larry Lamers, Chair X3T10.1

X3T10.1 met in St. Petersburg Beach, FL on Wednesday, June 26, 1996
with 8 people present.
Membership is now at 13 voting organizations of which 6 were in
attendance.

All of the first-generation SSA documents (PH1, TL1, and S2P) have
completed public review without comment.

The editorial comments from the ANSI editor were reviewed and
determined to be non-substantive.  The technical editor prepared
revisions of the dpANS with those changes incorporated.

SSA-PH1   X3.293-199n  revision 9b
SSA-TL1   X3.295-199n  revision 10a
SSA-S2P   X3.294-199n revision 7a

It is expected that SSA-PH2 and SSA-TL2 will have technical stability
vote at the next plenary.  A forwarding motion is planned for October
1996 for all three second generation drafts.

The next plenary meeting of X3T10.1 will be August 28, 1996, in
Ithaca, NY at the Ramada Inn, hosted by Pathlight.  Contact Fran
Hopkins at Pathlight for reservations (607 266 4000).  The meeting
will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday

The long term meeting schedule is:

Week of August 26, 1996 in Ithaca, NY hosted by Pathlight.
Week of October 28, 1996 in Hawaii, hosted by IBM.
Week of February 24, 1997 in Austin, TX  *.
Week of June 23, 1997 in Monterey, CA *.
Week of October 27, 1997 in Europe *.
Week of February 23, 1998 in *.
Week of June 22, 1998 in *.
Week of October 26, 1998 *.

Larry Lamers moved and John Lohmeyer seconded that X3T10 accept the
changes requested by the ANSI editor as reflected in: SSA-PH1 X3.293-
199n  revision 9b; SSA-TL1 X3.295-199n  revision 10a; and SSA-S2P
X3.294-199n revision 7a as non-substantive.  The motion passed
34:0:0:17=51.

John Lohmeyer took an action item to inform the X3 Secretariat of
X3T10's acceptance of the ANSI edits on the SSA documents as non-
substantive changes.

8.3  SCSI Common Access Method (CAM) {Project 792-D} [Dallas]

John reported that CAM is at ANSI awaiting publication.

8.4  SCSI-3 Parallel Interface (SPI) Status {Project 855-D} [Lamers]

Larry Lamers reported that ANSI SPI document is in the process of
publication by ANSI.  At the urging of Gene Milligan, the SPI
amendment was given top priority at the Friday document editing
meeting.  Work on the SPI amendment and SPI issues will start at 8:30
a.m. on Friday 19 July 1996.

Larry noted that the SPI ISO document will incorporate the SPI
amendment during the next round of editing.  This provides one key
motivation for completing the SPI amendment quickly.  Larry asked
about document numbering on the SPI ISO document.

Larry moved that X3T10 approve payment the invoice in document 96-218
as partial payment of the SPI ISO professional editing work.  Charles
Monia seconded the motion.  The motion passed 32:0:0:19=51.  John
took an action item to request the X3 Secretariat to pay the invoice
in 96-218.

8.5  SPI Amendment (SPIAmnd) {Project 0855-D} [Johansson/Lamers}

As noted in the previous item, the SPI Amendment will be reviewed at
the next document editing meeting.

8.6  SCSI-3 Interlocked Protocol (SIP) Status {Project 856-D}
[Penokie]

After processing the clarification of sleep mode George Penokie moved
that X3T10 forward SIP revision 10 to second public review.   Paul
Aloisi seconded the motion.  Revision 10 also corrects the normative
reference problem identified in public review comment #1 from IBM.
The motion passed 29:0:0:22=51.  George Penokie took an action item
to prepare SIP revision 10.  John Lohmeyer took an action item to
forward SIP revision 10 to X3 for further processing toward second
public review and to respond to the public review comment.

8.7  SCSI Common Access Method -3 (CAM-3) Status {Project 990-D}
[Dallas]

Bill Dallas reported that formal CAM working group meetings are being
suspended until January or March 1997.  Further discussion of CAM
will be conducted on a reflector.  Bill noted that work on the
address field size issues are being resolved and said that the
reflector is providing a good forum for discussing the address
concerns.

8.8  SCSI-3 Serial Bus Protocol (SBP) Status {Project 992-D}
[Roberts]

John reported that SBP has passed second public review without
comment.  However, the X3 Secretariat is holding SBP pending
resolution of the normative references issues.

John thanked Dal Allan for prodding ANSI to resolve the problems
X3T10 has been having with normative references to draft documents.
The description of the proposed new ANSI policy can be found in 96-
199r0.  The committee discussed the new ANSI policy.  John took an
action item to inform the X3 Secretariat of X3T10's enthusiastic
agreement with ANSI's proposed normative references policy.

The committee directed Ron Roberts to modify SBP as described in the
new ANSI references policy.

8.9  SCSI-3 Fiber Channel Protocol (FCP) Status {Project 993-D}
[Snively]

Bob Snively reported that, to the best of his knowledge, FCP is
published.  He recommended that this agenda item be dropped for
future committee meetings.  John agreed to remove this agenda item
when he determines that FCP has been published.

8.10 SCSI-3 Architecture Model (SAM) Status {Project 994-D} [Monia]

Charles reported he is unaware about the status of SAM.  He noted
that he has not been contacted by the ANSI editors.

8.11 SCSI-3 Primary Commands (SPC) Status {Project 995-D} [Weber]

Ralph reported that the SCSI working group approved acceptance of 96-
148r3 as resolving the SPC letter ballot comments and that the
working group recommended SPC revision 10 (revision 9b as amended by
the working group) for forwarding to public review.

Ralph Weber moved and Charles Monia seconded that the comments
resolution 96-149r3 be accepted as resolving the SPC letter ballot
comments and that SPC revision 10 be forwarded to X3 for further
processing toward first public review.  The motion passed
29:0:0:22=51.

Ralph took an action item to prepare SPC revision 10.  John took an
action item to forward SPC revision 10 to X3 for further processing
toward first public review.

8.12 SCSI-3 Block Commands (SBC) Status {Project 996-D} [Milligan]

Gene reported that SBC has been cleaned up by a professional editor.
He noted that additional changes in SBC have been recommended by the
working group and will be dealt with later in this meeting.

Larry Lamers moved that X3T10 approve the editing quotation in 96-216
and the invoice in 96-217.  John Lohmeyer seconded the motion.  The
motion passed 34:0:0:17=51.  John Lohmeyer took an action item to
request the X3 Secretariat to pay the invoice in 96-217.

Gene Milligan moved that SBC be stabilized at revision 4 plus the
changes approved at this meeting.  Ed Gardner seconded the motion.
The motion passed 26:0:0:25=51.

8.13 SCSI-3 Stream Commands (SSC) Status {Project 997-D} [Lappin]

Ted Lappin reported in the activities of the SSC/SMC working group
(minutes in 96-219).

8.14 SCSI-3 Graphics Commands (SGC) Status {Project 998-D} [Tewell]

John reported no progress on SGC.  He reminded the committee if no
one has volunteered to edit SGC by the September plenary, he will
introduce a motion to withdraw SGC from development.

8.15 SCSI-3 Medium Changer Commands (SMC) Status {Project 999-D}
[Oetting]

Erich reported that revision 6 of SMC will be in the next mailing.
He described the changes in revision 6 as being minor.  Ralph asked
Erich to expedite publication of SMC, since SMC is a normative
reference in SPC.

8.16 SCSI-3 Controller Commands (SCC) Status {Project 1047-D}
[Penokie]

George Penokie reported several editorial corrections for SCC have
been reported since the last meeting.  He described the normative
references problems and resolutions handled since the last meeting.
He said that revision 6a was in the last mailing and the next mailing
will contain revision 6b.

Gene Milligan moved that X3T10 accept the changes in revision 6b of
SCC as non-substantive and that the SCC technical editor be
instructed to work with the ANSI editor to bring the normative
references in SCC into conformance with the ANSI references policy.
John Lohmeyer seconded the motion.  It was noted that a draft of the
ANSI references policy can be found in X3T10/96-199.  The motion
passed 31:0:0:20=51.

George Penokie took an action item to work with the ANSI editor to
bring the normative references in SCC into conformance with the ANSI
references policy.  John Lohmeyer took an action item to inform the
X3 Secretariat that X3T10 accepts the changes to SCC as non-
substantive.

8.17 Multimedia Command Set (MMC) Status {Project 1048-D} [Roberts]

Ron Roberts reported that MMC working group unanimously recommended
that X3T10 conduct a letter ballot to approve forwarding MMC revision
8 to first public review.  In the absence of any objections, John
Lohmeyer took an action item to conduct a letter ballot to approve
forwarding of MMC revision 8 to first public review.

Ron requested that a two-day MMC working group meeting be scheduled
for September.

8.18 SCSI-3 Fast-20 Parallel Interface (Fast-20) {Project 1071-D}
[Lamers]

Larry Lamers reported that Fast-20 is in final publication and should
be available in August.

8.19 SCSI Parallel Interface - 2 (SPI-2) {Project 1142-D} [Ham]

Bill Ham reported that revision 9 of SPI-2 was posted on the BBS last
week.  He described the inclusion of High-Voltage Differential in SPI-
2 revision 9.  He described the document as technically stable and
noted that no substantive numbers were changed in the recent
revision.  He suggested that forwarding might be possible at the next
meeting.

John described the debate over DIFFSENS numbers that occurred at the
working group meeting (minutes in 96-201).  Bill described the
process by which Fast-80 was dropped from SPI-2.  Bill and Larry
Lamers discussed the need for more "clock like" REQ/ACK signals to
make Fast-80 work on a Fast-40 cabling and transceiver plant.

8.20 SCSI Enhanced Parallel Interface (EPI) Technical Report {Project
1143-D} [Ham]

Bill Ham reported that EPI revision 6 contains important new details
regarding expander circuits.  He noted that the working group
discussed EPI for about three hours (minutes in 96-201).  He
described the project as about 50%-60% complete with respect to
technical content.  John complemented Bill on the EPI work thus far
and requested people to review the draft document.

8.21 SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol - 2 (FCP-2) {Project 1144-D}
[Snively]

Bob Snively reported that the major work in FCP-2 is bringing it into
alignment with protocol editorial policies.  He noted that work on
SES will take precedence over FCP-2.

8.22 Boot Considerations Technical Report {Project 1154-DT}  [Penman]

The committee inspected portions of the draft and expressed concerns
over the amount of additional editing necessary.  Larry Lamers noted
that he is not available to provide additional editing on the
document.  Bob Snively requested that X3T13 and the X3T10 members not
attending this meeting be notified that this project may be dropped
due to lack of active interest.  Bob further suggested that X3T10
members be solicited for interested persons to become editors.
Larry Lamers, John Lohmeyer and Gene Milligan took an action item to
notify the membership of X3T10 and X3T13 that the Boot Considerations
TR might be dropped.

Larry moved that X3T10 approve payment the invoice in document 96-215
for professional editing work on the Boot Considerations Technical
Report.  Charles Monia seconded the motion.  The motion passed
25:0:0:26=51. John Lohmeyer took an action item to request the X3
Secretariat to pay the invoice in 96-215.

8.23 SCSI-3 Serial Bus Protocol 2 (SBP-2) {Project 1155-D}
[Johansson]

John reported that Peter Johansson gave an overview of the SBP-2 in
the working group.  Peter requested approval of a SBP-2 working group
meeting in Redmond, WA on 13 August.  Peter further informed the
committee that a "Disk Boys" meeting will be held in Redmond, WA on
14 and 15 August.

8.24 SCSI Architecture Model - 2 (SAM-2) {Project 1157-D [Monia]

Charles Monia reported no progress on SAM-2.  He stated that he is
hoping to resolve some editorial issues before progressing much
farther on SAM-2.

8.25 SCSI-3 Enclosure Commands (SES) {Project 1212-D} [Snively]

Bob Snively reported that the SES project has been assigned project
number 1212.  He further said that SES revision 5.0 was prepared for
and discussed at the June meeting.  Revision 6.0 was prepared as a
partial integration of the technical and editorial modifications from
meetings.  He announced that revision 7.0 is scheduled for
preparation for the next meeting and should contain all editorial and
technical modifications.  He stated a belief that revision 7.0 will
be ready for letter ballot approval for first public review.

8.26 SCSI Controller Commands (SCC-2) {Project xxxx-D} [Penokie]

George Penokie reported on the results of the SCC working group
meeting (minutes in 96-206). George requested a half-day meeting
during the September meeting week.

8.27 High Availability Profile (HAP) Technical Report {Project xxxx-
DT} [Hagerman]

No report.

9.   Old Business

9.1  Results of SPC Letter Ballot (96-012)

The SPC letter ballot comments were processed during the SPC project
report (see above).

9.2  Electronic Notification Procedure (95-146r2) [Lohmeyer]

John Lohmeyer moved that X3T10 forward 95-146r2 to X3 PPC as an
additional definition of X3T10 procedures, specifically for
electronic processing of committee actions.  Zane Daggett seconded
the motion.  The motion passed 26:0:0:25=51.  John took an action
item to forward 95-146r2 to X3 PPC as an additional definition of
X3T10 procedures, specifically for electronic processing of committee
actions.

10.  New Business

10.1 MMC-2 Command Set Project Proposal (96-185) [Roberts]

Ron Roberts moved that the MMC-2 project proposal be forward to X3
for further processing.  Bob Snively seconded the motion.  The motion
passed 26:0:0:25=51.  John Lohmeyer took an action item to forward
the MMC-2 project proposal (96-185r0) to X3 for further processing.

10.2 Actions on Working Group Recommendations

10.2.1    Request for  DEVICE INTERNAL RESET ASC/ASCQ (96-192r0)
[Monia]

Jeff Williams moved that the recommendation of the working group to
add ASC/ASCQ 29/04 defined as DEVICE INTERNAL RESET.  George Penokie
seconded the motion.  The motion passed 26:0:0:25=51.

10.2.2    Clarification of sleep mode (96-140) [Penokie]

George Penokie described the history the sleep mode clarification
proposal.  George moved that the committee accept 96-140r4 for
inclusion in the proper standards.  Peter Johansson seconded the
motion.  The motion passed 27:0:1:23=51.

George moved that those portions of 96-140r4 that apply SIP be
included in SIP revision 10.  Ed Gardner seconded the motion.  Gene
Milligan moved to amend the motion to change SIP revision 10 to SIP-2
or project 1142 if that project's scope is amended.  Gary Stephens
seconded the motion to amend.  The motion to amend did not pass
12:12:3:24=51.  The original motion passed 27:4:0:20=51.

10.2.3    RESERVE(6) and RELEASE(6) (96-183) [Stephens]

In view of the fact that the current definition of RESERVE(6) and
RELEASE(6) commands are broken with respect to several serial
protocols, Gene Milligan moved that the third-party fields in
RESERVE(6) and RELEASE(6) be made obsolete and that the status of the
two commands be changed from mandatory to optional and that checking
be required for the obsolete fields.  Bill Dallas seconded the
motion.

Jeff Williams moved to divide the field checking from the original
question.  George Penokie seconded the motion to divide.  The motion
to divide passed 17:0.  The checking was divided from the original
motion.

The motion minus the field checking passed 27:2:0:22=51

The committee turned to the issue of field checking (divided motion
|from the original motion).  The second portion of the divided motion
passed 21:3:1:26=51.  Upon further consideration, the chair
recognized that the second portion of the divided motion did not pass
because it affects SPC and thus requires a two-thirds vote.  A second
vote was held.  The second portion of the divided question failed
24:2:0:25=51.

Gene Milligan moved that checking of the RESERVE(6) and RELEASE(6)
obsolete fields be made mandatory in some future version of SPC.
Bill Dallas seconded the motion.  The motion passed 14:7:5:25=51.
George Penokie requested that Gene be given an action item
documenting the proposal just passed.  Gene Milligan took an action
item to document the action taken by this plenary meeting with
respect to the checking of the RESERVE(6) and RELEASE(6) obsolete
fields be made mandatory in some future version of SPC.

10.2.4    READ(6) (96-183) [Stephens]

In view of the favorable vote in the working group, Gene Milligan
moved that READ(6) be made optional in SBC. Skip Jones seconded the
motion.  The motion passed 26:2:0:23=51.

10.2.5    Change to Device Identification VPD Page (96-214)
[DeKoning]

The committee could not find a written copy of the proposal and
action was deferred to the September working group meeting.

10.2.6    Several SSC Proposals [Lappin/Stephens]

Ted Lappin described three proposals for changes in SSC: Write
Protect for Sequential Devices (96-179r1), Read Reverse Option for
Sequential Devices (96-180r1), and Progress Indication Clarification
for Sequential Devices (96-181r1).  Ted moved that working group
recommendation to accept those portions of all three proposals that
apply to SSC for inclusion SSC be approved by X3T10.  Bill Dallas
seconded the motion.  The motion passed 21:0:0:30=51.

Ted noted that the proposal Write Protect for Sequential Devices (96-
179r1) includes new ASC/ASCQ assignments.  Ted moved that the
ASC/ASCQ assignments in 96-179r1 be approved for inclusion in a
future version SPC.  Bill Dallas seconded the motion.  The motion
passed 22:0:0:29=51.

10.3 Project Proposal for SCSI Unified Parallel Requirements (SUPR)
(96-188) [Lamers/Lohmeyer/Ham]

George Penokie presented recommendations on SPI-2 documentation
strategy on behalf of himself and the SCSI Trade Association.
Specifics of the recommendations were as follows:

     1) Stabilize SPI-2 proposal ASAP
          Take a stabilization vote
          No intention to forward

     2) Start a new project called SUPR that includes:
          SPI-2 proposal
          FAST-20 standard
          SPI standard
          SIP standard ???
          other stuff like:
               Fairness
               FAST-80
               Reduced overhead

     3) Drop SPI-2 project proposal

George Penokie moved that the committee reconsider the motions
defining the scope the 1142 project passed at meeting number 15
(approved minutes in 96-186r1).  Gene Milligan seconded the motion to
reconsider.  The motion passed 20:2:2:27=51.

Gene Milligan moved that the sense X3T10 be that the document
presently known as 1142 be stabilized as quickly as practical, and
that the motion to stabilize it include its acceptance for inclusion
in project 1142 with the addition of SPI, Fast-20, and other
applicable items.  Skip Jones seconded the motion.  The motion was
discussed at length.  The scope of the project proposal for 1142 (95-
207r1) were reviewed.  The motion passed 17:8:1:25=51.

Larry Lamers took an action item to assign a X3T10 document number to
the document presently known as 1142.

Bill Ham moved that the SUPR project proposal (96-188r0) be forward
to X3 for further processing.  Roger Cummings seconded the motion.
After a lengthy discussion, Bill and Roger agreed to withdraw their
motion.

Gary Stephens moved that X3T10 prepare a revision to the scope of
project 1142 to include SIP.  Jeff Williams seconded the motion.  The
motion passed 13:6:12:20=51.  Gary Stephens took an action item to
draft a letter to X3 OMC requesting a revision in the project
proposal for project 1142.  [Chair's note:  A 2/3rds motion is still
needed to forward the proposed revision to the 1142 project scope.]

10.4 Terminator Issue [Milligan]

Gene described problems with the unreliability of the SCSI-3
terminator, with respect to the SCSI-2 terminator.  Gene explained
that the SPI rules do not appear to permit the terminator to source
as much current as the figure in SCSI-2 would source.  Further
discussion of the problem presented by Gene was remanded to the
working group.  It was suggested that Gene obtain a document number
for the slide he presented.

10.5 RESERVE ELEMENT(6) and RESERVE ELEMENT(6) [Oetting]

Based on the lack of clarity in the RESERVE(6) and RELEASE(6) votes,
Erich decided to defer action on this item to the September meetings.

11.  ISO

11.1 ISO Report [Milligan]

Gene Milligan, the X3T10 International Representative, gave an oral
report and provided the following electronic report:

                           July ISO Report

The 6th meeting of Working Group 4 of SC 25 had the following
highlights:

Eighty four resolutions were passed: thirty-two on X3T10; forty-two
on X3T11; eight on X3T12; one on X3T13; and one on the patent
statement. In addition SC 25 also passed a resolution relative to
X3T1X. In addition to the resolutions nine action points were
assigned: two relative to X3T10; one relative to X3T11; four relative
to X3T12; and two germane only to WG 4.

The delegations provided seventeen London documents. Among them
London WG4/03 is Japan Contribution for a Techncial Corrigendum for
ISO/IEC 9316:1995 and London WG4/14 is the NWI proposal results for
the Optical Memory Card Reader/Writer.

The discussion points relative to X3T10 include:

The contribution from Japan on SCSI-2 noted an error with metric
conversion, a error in the command list, and an inconsistent
description. The first comment may have been addressed but all the
comments need review to see how they compare to the published
document.

The numbering scheme for SCSI-3 standards documents was revised to
that shown in the following table:

Project  Name      Genera  Physic   Protoc  Comman  Old
No.                l       al I/O   ol      ds      Number
25.13.X  ISO/IEC   14776-  14776-   14776-  14776-  Various
X.XX     SCSI XXX  4XX     1XX      2XX     3XX
25.13.1  SCSI CAM  9316-                            9316-2
1.02               421                              Expecte
Reserve                                             d
d
25.13.1  SCSI-3                             14776-  New-7
1.03     SPC                                311
Reserve
d
25.13.1  SCSI-3                     14776-          New-8
1.04     SIP                        211
Reserve
d
25.13.1  SCSI-3            14776-                   14776
1.05     SPI               111
25.13.1  Cancel                                     New-12
1.06
25.13.1  SCSI-3                     14776-          14777
1.07     SBP                        231
25.13.1  SCSI-3    14776-                           15281
1.08     SAM       411
25.13.1  SCSI-3    14776-                           New-2
1.09     CAM-3     423
25.13.1  SCSI-3                             14776-  New-3
1.10     SBC                                321
25.13.1  SCSI-3                             14776-  New-4
1.11     SSC                                331
25.13.1  SCSI-3                             14776-  New-5
1.12     SGC                                391
25.13.1  SCSI-3                             14776-  New-6
1.13     SMC                                351
25.13.1  SCSI-3            14776-                   14777
1.14     Fast 20           121
25.13.1  SCSI-3                             14776-  TBD
1.15     SCC                                341
25.13.1  SCSI OP                            14776-  TBD
1.16     MC RD/WR                           381
Reserve
d
25.13.1  SCSI-3                     14776-          14780
3.02     FCP                        221
25.13.1  SCSI-3                             14776-  TBD
1.XX     MMC                                361
Reserve
d
25.13.1  SCSI-3                     14776-          TBD
1.XX     FCP-2                      222
Reserve
d
25.13.1  SCSI-3    14776-                           TBD
1.XX     SAM-2     412
25.13.1  SCSI-3                     14776-          TBD
1.XX     SBP-2                      232
25.13.1  SCSI-3            14776-                   TBD
1.XX     SPI-2             112

The SCSI-3 Parallel Interface (SPI) New Work Item was approved the CD
Letter Ballot was approved with comments from France, Germany, Japan
and the USA. With respect to the comments on the dimensioning in
figures 4 through 7, it was our position that the dimensioning
technique is defined by the drafting standard, and that it is not
intended to completely specify the connector in this standard. The
German Comments 14 and 16 seem incomplete and the nomenclature is
unclear. We expected corrected text to be available by the end of
August, and that technical comments should be allowed in response to
the DIS Letter Ballot.

A contribution was received from ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25 N279 as a
liaison report from TC 46C. This liaison will be treated as a CD
comment concerning the SPI need for conversion from EIA
specifications to IEC specifications.

It was agreed to remove Project 25.13.11.06 SCSI-3 GPP from the JTC
1/SC 25 Programme of Work.

The SCSI-3 Serial Bus Protocol (SBP) New Work Item was approved, and
the CD Letter Ballot was approved, with comments from Germany, Japan
and the USA. The physical interface (IEEE 1394) for SBP is a project
within IEC TC 100.

The SCSI-3 Architecture Model (SAM) New Work Item, and the CD Letter
Ballot were approved with comments from  Germany and Japan. We
expected that Germany Comment 11 could not be agreed to because the
SCSI terminology is always Logical Unit Number, not Logic Unit Number
as requested.

The SCSI-3 Fast - 20 New Work Item, and the CD Letter Ballot was
approved with comments from Germany and Japan.

The SCSI-3 Controller Commands (SCC) New Work Items, and the CD
Letter Ballot were approved, and comments were received from  Germany
and Japan.

With SCSI-2 CAM now published in the US as X3.232-1996, and a project
is underway in the US for SCSI-3 CAM-3 Mr. Milligan solicited
interest in this area of standardization from the other National
Bodies.  Mr. Maergner commented that there is interest in this area
of standardization, and he suggested that the Fast Track procedure be
used for SCSI-2 CAM-2.  Mr. Milligan noted that a number of other
American National Standards are referenced, and therefore negative
votes from several National Bodies could be anticipated.  No comments
were made by the other National Bodies present, other than the fact
that SCSI-2 CAM might be an ideal "trial balloon" for fast tracking.
It was therefore agreed to request that the US National Member Body
submit X3.232-1996 for the fast track procedure.

It was agreed to authorize a New Work Items ballot, a CD ballot, and
a DIS ballot for each of SPC, SIP, SBC, SSC and SMC respectively.

The New Work Item within ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 17 SCSI Specifications for
Optical Memory Card Reader/Writer results are contained in JTC 1 N
4106 which indicates "Although this New Work Item proposal has met
the criteria for acceptance into the JTC 1 Programme of Work, two
Principal Members have questioned the assignment of the work to SC
17. This New Work Item is accepted into the JTC 1 Programme of Work
and assigned to a Subcommittee for development, SC 17, in
conjunction/liaison with SC 25, is instructed to address the comments
submitted by the National Bodies of Germany and the USA concerning
proper assignment of the work."  It had been recommended that SC 17
and WG 9 of a committee in Japan develop this specification (an
information copy was referenced in the ballot). The proposal also
included using an addendum to SCSI-1 (9316-1) since it was the only
published SCSI standard at that time.

Noting the comments (JTC 1 N 4106) from the NWI ballot JTC 1 N 3862
SCSI Specifications for Optical Memory Card Reader/Writer, SC 25
instructed its Secretariat to advise the JTC 1 Secretariat that this
is definitely within the scope of SC 25 and not within the scope of
SC 17 and therefore should be assigned to SC 25/WG 4 with liaison to
SC 17/WG 9.

Mr. Milligan was appointed to be the liaison for SC 25/WG 4 to IEC/TC
100.

Rather than accepting the CD comment to eliminate the patent
statement, in recognition of the risks of infringing patents with
complex interface standards, SC 25 instructed its Secretariat to
consult with the ITTF to determine if it would be acceptable to
include one of the two warning statements below depending upon the
specific circumstance:

In the event no patents have yet been identified:

     "PATENT STATEMENT

CAUTION: The developers of this standard have requested that holders
of patents that may be required for the implementation of the
standard, disclose such patents to the publisher.  However, neither
the developers nor the publisher have undertaken a patent search in
order to identify which, if any, patents may apply to this standard.

As of the date of publication of this standard and following calls
for the identification of patents that may be required for the
implementation of the standard, no such claims have been made.  No
further patent search is conducted by the developer or the publisher
in respect to any standard it processes.  No representation is made
or implied that licenses are not required to avoid infringement in
the use of this standard."

In the event patents have been Identified:

     "PATENT STATEMENT

CAUTION: The developers of this standard have requested that holders
of patents that may be required for the implementation of the
standard, disclose such patents to the publisher.  However, neither
the developers nor the publisher have undertaken a patent search in
order to identify which, if any, patents may apply to this standard.

As of the date of publication of this standard and following calls
for the identification of patents that may be required for the
implementation of the standard, claims have been made.  No further
patent search is conducted by the developer or the publisher in
respect to any standard it processes.  Contact the publisher for
information concerning these claims and for information on patent
licensing. No representation is made or implied that licenses not
known to the publisher are not required to avoid infringement in the
use of this standard."

The next WG 4 meeting will be with SC 25 in Brazil during the week of
23 June 1997.

Gene Milligan moved that CAM be approved for fast track ISO
processing.  Bill Dallas seconded the motion.  Gene requested a roll-
call vote.

Organization                Stat  Name                   Yes No Abs NP

Adaptec, Inc.                A    Mr. Lawrence J. Lamers   1
Amdahl Corp.                                                         1
AMP, Inc.                    P    Mr. Charles Brill        1
Amphenol Interconnect                                                1
Ancot Corp.                                                          1 *
Apple Computer               A    Mr. Ron Roberts          1
BusLogic                                                             1
Ciprico Inc.                 A    Mr. Raymond Gilson       1
Circuit Assembly Corp.                                               1 *
Cirrus Logic Inc.                                                    1 *
CMD Technology                                                       1
Congruent Software, Inc.                                             1 *
Dallas Semiconductor         P    Mr. Louis Grantham       1
Digital Equipment Corp.      A#   Mr. William Dallas       1
Distributed Processing Tech. P    Mr. Roger Cummings          1
Eastman Kodak Co.            P    Mr. Robert Reisch        1
ENDL                                                                 1
Exabyte Corp.                P    Mr. Edward Lappin        1
FSI Consulting Services                                              1 *
Fujitsu Computer Products,Am                                         1 *
Hewlett Packard Co.          A    Mr. J. R. Sims           1
Hitachi Micro Systems, Inc.                                          1 *
Hitachi Cable Manchester,Inc                                         1 *
Honda Connectors                                                     1 *
IBM Corp.                    P    Mr. George Penokie       1
Iomega Corp.                                                         1
KnowledgeTek, Inc.                                                   1
Linfinity Micro              P    Mr. Dean Wallace         1
Madison Cable Corp.                                                  1 *
Maxtor Corp.                 P    Mr. Pete McLean          1
Methode Electronics, Inc.                                            1
Molex Inc.                                                           1 *
Oak Technology, Inc.                                                 1 *
Ophidian Designs                                                     1 *
Panasonic Technologies, Inc  P    Mr. Stephen F. Heil      1
Philips KMG                  P    Mr. Bill McFerrin        1
QLogic Corp.                 P    Mr. Skip Jones           1
Quantum Corp.                                                        1
Seagate Technology           P    Mr. Gene Milligan        1
Silicon Systems, Inc.        P    Mr. Dave Guss            1
Sony Electronics, Inc.                                               1 *
Storage Technology Corp.     P    Mr. Erich Oetting        1
Sun Microsystems Computer Co                                         1 *
Symbios Logic Inc.           P    Mr. John Lohmeyer        1
SyQuest Technology, Inc.                                             1 *
Tandem Computers             P    Mr. John Moy             1
Toshiba America              P    Mr. Tokuyuki Totani      1
UNISYS Corporation                                                   1 *
Unitrode Integrated Circuits P    Mr. Paul D. Aloisi       1
Western Digital Corporation  P    Mr. Jeffrey L. Williams  1
Woven Electronics                                                    1

                                                          23  1  0  27 =   
51

The motion failed 23:1:0:27=51.  The motion failed late in the
meeting because less than 50% of the membership voted in favor;  17
organizations (shown with *) were not present for the roll call vote
that had signed the attendance sheet.  Roger Cummings declined to
state a reason for his no vote.

12.  Liaison Reports

12.1 X3T11 Liaison Report [Cummings]

Roger Cummings, X3T11 Chair, provided the following electronic
report:

X3T11 LIAISON REPORT to X3T10 & X3T12

X3T11 met on Thursday April 11, 1996 with 92 people in attendance.
No organizations lost membership.  The membership of Madison Cable
was reinstated on the instructions of the Secretariat due to their
fulfillment of the requirements for a separate organization after
their acquisition by AMP. The membership of Computing Devices
International was reinstated as a result of payment of the
appropriate fees.  Optivision was added as a new member organization.
The membership of X3T11 is now 67 organizations.

Public Reviews ended on May 14, 1996 for the 10 Bit Interface (TR-
18), FC-LE (X3.287), FC-GS (X3.288), FC-FG (X3.289), IPI-3TR (X3.290)
and IPI-3DR (X3.291) projects.  One comment was received from TI on
the 10 Bit Interface TR.  Comments were also received from the ANSI
editor on all drafts.

X3T11 accepted the dpANS used for the Public Review, with the
addition of the accepted changes resulting from the ANSI editor
comments, as the final version for the following projects by the
rollcall votes shown below:

     Project 496-R, Revised IPI-3 Disk, F47-O00-DNV20
     Project 505-R, Revised IPI-3 Tape, F47-O00-DNV20
     Project 955-D, FC-LE, Revision 1.1, F46-O00-DNV21
     Project 958-D, FC-FG, Revision 3.4, F46-O00-DNV21
     Project 1118-DT, 10 Bit Interface TR, Revision 2.3, F46-O00-
DNV21

It was reported that first Public Reviews for the SBCON and FC-PH-2
projects will close on July 9, 1996, and that the numbers X3.296 and
X3.297 had been assigned, respectively.

A dpANS for the HIPPI-ATM project (Revision 1.7) was forwarded for an
OMC Compliance Review and a first Public Review by F42-O00-DNV25,
meeting the two-thirds rule.

A dpANS for the HIPPI Serial project (Revision 2.6) was forwarded for
an OMC Compliance Review and a first Public Review by F41-O00-DNV26,
meeting the two-thirds rule.

A dpANS for the Revised HIPPI-SC project (Revision 3.1) was forwarded
for an OMC Compliance Review and a first Public Review by F42-O00-
DNV25, meeting the two-thirds rule.

It was reported that the HIPPI Autoconfiguration Project Proposal had
been approved, and assigned number 1163-D.

There had been an extensive discussion in an Ad Hoc preceding the
Plenary about possible misinterpretations of the Bit Error Rate of
10**-12 which is identified in X3.230.  Action Items were assigned to
create a Project Proposal for an amendment to X3.230, to submit a
comment against the Public Review of X3.297-199x, FC-PH-2, and to
include some modified text in FC-PH-3.

A motion to deleted all references to FC-SL (Slotted Loop) from the
draft for the FC-AL-2 project was postponed to the August X3T11
Plenary.

An X3T11 Letter Ballot on FC-PH-3, Revision 8.8, was authorized.

The next meeting of X3T11 is being hosted by Hitachi Computer
Products America on Wednesday August 7, 1996 at the Ala Moana Hotel,
410 Atkinson Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814.  The central reservation
fax is (808) 944-2974.  The rates are $110 "City View", $132
"Mountain View", $142 "Ocean View", plus 10.7% state tax.  The cutoff
date is 7/4/96.  A fee of $100 will be assessed for those attendees
who are not staying at the hotel as part of the X3T11 room block.

12.2 X3T13 Liaison Report [Milligan]

Gene Milligan, chairman of X3T13, informed the committee that Larry
Lamers had been appointed Secretary for X3T13 and that his
appointment as chairman became effective since the last meeting.
Gene then noted that he was unable to attend the most recent X3T13
meeting and that Pete McLean, X3T13 vicechair, had chaired the
meeting and will provide the report.  Due to the late hour, the
committee accepted Pete's offer to provide only an electronic report.
Pete's electronic report is as follows:

                          X3T13 June Report

X3T13 held an ad hoc meeting June 19-21, 1996. The following
documents were distributed:
     Proposal for X3T13 1153D ATA/ATAPI-4 [McLean]
     Feature status reporting [McLean] (D96103r0)
     ATA overlap proposal [McLean] (D96104r50
     Cache flush proposal [Roberts] (D96106r1)
     Vendor specific/optional proposal [Evans] (D96125r4)
     Connector proposal [Evans] (D96126r0)
     SMART command set modifications [Evans] (D96131r2)
     Core command set proposal [Stevens] (D96135r0)
     Enhanced BIOS Disk Drive technical report draft [Stevens]
(D96139r0)
     Reset proposal [Evans] (D96142r2)

ATA-2 (X3T13/0948D) is out for X3 letter ballot for approval. Closing
date July 31, 1996. ATA-3 (X3T13/2008D) will be in public review,
July 19, 1996 to September 17, 1996.

The 1153D draft document change bars were reviewed and minor changes
made. The Vendor specific/optional proposal was reviewed. The group
voted 17:1:0 to incorporate rev5 of D96125 into the 1153D document.
The protected area proposal (D96137r0) was reviewed. The group voted
11:4:1 to incorporate rev0 of D96137 into the 1153D document.

The first draft of the Enhanced BIOS Disk Drive technical report was
presented. This document will have a page by page review at the next
meeting.

The first draft of the Features status reporting proposal was
presented. This document will be completed for review at the next
meeting.

The overlap proposal was reviewed. The UIRQ bit and its associated
PDIAG- handshake were eliminated. A IRQP (Interrupt pending bit) was
added.

The cache flush proposal was reviewed. The group decided to remove
the subcommand options.

It was agreed that the Mode X  analog issues item and non-512 byte
transfers blocks item would be removed from future agendas.

Samples of a Berg connector adapted to a SCSI terminator were passed
out.

The SMART modifications proposal (D96131r2) was discussed. The group
voted 16:1:1 to incorporate rev2 of D96131 into the 1153D document.

The core command set proposal was presented.  The Reset proposal was
presented. It was requested that reflector discussion be held on this
proposal. The proposed unified connector proposal was presented.
Discussion resulted in the following prioritized goals:
     Legacy ATA compatibility
     40-pin host interface
     Molex power
     Standard user jumper locations
     Standard connector
     Cost savings
     Power integrated into IDC cable/connector
     Direct connect

The open issues list is as follows:
     33 megaword transfers
     shielding
     termination
     grounding
     IORDY open collector/tristate
     behavior of device executing reset if another reset received
     power management mandatory

The next ad hoc will be July 31 - August 1, 1996 at Seagate facility,
Zanker Road, San Jose.

The next plenary will be August 2, 1996 at Seagate facility, Zanker
Road, San Jose.

The subsequent plenary will be held October 25, 1996 in Honolulu,
Hawaii hosted by Quantum.

12.3 SFF Industry Group [Allan]

Dal Allan provided the following written report, which was read to
the committee.

SFF Committee Report

The major concern expressed by Unisys in May that SCA-2 connector
dimensions failed to guarantee acceptable wipe length in the worst
case scenario occupied a significant amount of time. AMP's proposed
changes were reviewed and the modifications appear acceptable to all
parties. All critical dimensions are now related to datum Z, rather
than being interdependent. It is expected that the dimensions and new
drawings will be distributed and agreed to by month end i.e. after
factory review.

 - The 3" form factor was submitted as an Information Specification
  by Compaq, JTS and Western Digital. Copies were distributed at the
  meeting.
 - A companion proposal being made to X3T13 for extensions to ATA for
  removable drives was also submitted as an Information
  Specification. Copies were distributed at the meeting.
 - The GbIC (Gigabit Connector Interface) was submitted as an
  Information Specification by Sun Microsystems. Copies were
  distributed at the meeting.
 - ATAPI CD-R (CD-Recordable) was submitted as an Information
  Specification. No copies were distributed at the meeting but will
  be included in the mailing.

Bill Ham's SSWG on VHDCI and SCA-2 has agreed that the next revision
of VHDCI will incorporate a stacked configuration and a few technical
corrections. It is expected to be ready for a Publication ballot at
month end after extensive editorial changes are incorporated which
improve the quality of the drawings. SCA-2 needs more input and an
issue related to press-fit connectors is to be letter-balloted to the
members.

Jay Neer's SSWG on form factors also produced a balloting item on the
Unitized Connector proposals for ATA from Quantum and Western
Digital. The results of the ballot will indicate whether there is
wide interest in doing both, or if one is preferred.

Many improvements to the ATA Cable plant have been pursued, and the
tests to date have consistently resulted in the 80-conductor/40-pin
solution providing improvements. Results with other alternatives have
been mixed. A specification will be prepared by Berg to define the
cable construction.

The form factor standards at EIA passed the latest letter ballot with
no technical comments but the power connector has minor dimensional
changes to the shroud. Harvey Waltersdorf will pursue having these
included before publication. Now that this cycle is complete, the 2
1/2", 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" specifications will be prepared for EIA
submission (EIA requires that there be a sponsor for each
specification).

Gene Milligan provided the following comments:

1) Gene stated his belief that the Sun Microsystems proposal was for
review only, with formal adoption to occur at the next SFF meeting.
2) Gene noted that he requested that the SFF EIA process include
submitting proposals to IEC (in addition to EIA), so that SFF
standards have international references to simplify referencing them
in X3T10 standards.

12.4 IEEE 1394 [Johansson]

No report.

12.5 IEEE P1285 Status

Gene Milligan noted that, in view of the earlier discussion, one of
the candidate protocols for the "Disk Boys" protocol is 1285.  No
other report was available.

12.6 PCMCIA Report []

No report.

12.7 SCSI Trade Association (STA) [Jones]

Louis Grantham made an oral report to the committee and provided the
following electronic report:

STA Liaison Report 7/18/96 to X3T10 (Louis Grantham, Dallas
Semiconductor)

There was STA meeting today, 7/18/96 and planned each month during
the week of X3T10 and X3T11.

SCSI Trade Association Members as of May 1996:  Adaptec, Ancot,
BusLogic, Circuit Assembly Corp., Dallas Semiconductor, Digital
Equipment Corp., Fujitsu Personal Systems, I-TECH Corp., Linfinity
Microelectronics, Molex, Paralan Corp., Qlogic, Quantum, Seagate
Technology, Silicon Systems, Symbios Logic, Technology Forums, Temp-
Flex Cable Inc., Unitrode, Western Digital, and Xyratex.

The website is www.scsita.com.

Ultra-SCSI-on-the-road US Seminars complete with participation from
over 250 people from over 50 companies.  STA plans to take to Asia in
October.  STA will have a SCSI Parallel Interface Technology Center
at Comdex in the Las Vegas convention center.

Articles are written for each Computer Technology Review issue on
SCSI technologies and applications.

STA recommends the icons in document 96-220 (Proposed LVD icons) for
use in SPI-2.  Louis Grantham moved that X3T10 accept the LVD icons
in 96-220 for inclusion in the appropriate document.  Skip Jones
seconded the motion.  The motion passed 23:0:0:28=51.

There will be continued effort to increase communications between
X3T10 and STA.  The next joint meeting is Wednesday during September
plenary week from 5 to 7 PM , an agenda will be in the mailing.

13.  Review of Action Items

152) John Lohmeyer will communicate to the X3 Secretariat X3T10's
     acceptance of the ANSI edits on the SSA documents as non-
     substantive changes.
153) John Lohmeyer will request the X3 Secretariat to pay the invoice
     in 96-218.
154) George Penokie will prepare SIP revision 10.
155) John Lohmeyer will forward SIP revision 10 to X3 for further
     processing toward second public review and will respond to the
     public review comment.
156) Ron Roberts will modify SBP to conform to the new ANSI
     references policy.
157) Ralph Weber will prepare SPC revision 10.
158) John Lohmeyer will forward SPC revision 10 to X3 for further
     processing toward first public review.
159) John Lohmeyer will request the X3 Secretariat to pay the invoice
     in 96-217.
160) George Penokie will work with the ANSI editor to bring the
     normative references in SCC into conformance with the ANSI
     references policy.
161) John Lohmeyer will inform the X3 Secretariat that X3T10 accepts
     the changes to SCC as non-substantive.
162) John Lohmeyer will conduct a letter ballot to approve forwarding
     of MMC revision 8 to first public review.
163) Larry Lamers, John Lohmeyer and Gene Milligan will notify the
     membership of X3T10 and X3T13 that the Boot Considerations TR
     might be dropped.
164) John Lohmeyer will request the X3 Secretariat to pay the invoice
     in 96-215.
165) John Lohmeyer will forward the MMC-2 project proposal (96-185r0)
     to X3 for further processing.
166) Gene Milligan will document the action taken by this plenary
     meeting with respect to the checking of the RESERVE(6) and
     RELEASE(6) obsolete fields be made mandatory in some future
     version of SPC.
167) Larry Lamers will assign a X3T10 document number to the document
     presently known as 1142.
168) Gary Stephens will draft a letter to X3 OMC for consideration at
     the September X3T10 meeting  requesting a revision in the
     project proposal for project 1142.
169) John Lohmeyer will resend the CD letter ballot comments (Fast-
     20, SBP, SCC, SAM, SPI) to the technical editors.
169) The technical editors for the recently completed CD ballots will
     come to the next working group meetings prepared to respond to
     any substantive changes required by the CD ballot comments.
170) John will inform the X3 Secretariat of X3T10's enthusiastic
     agreement with ANSI's proposed normative references policy.
171) John will forward 95-146r2 to X3 PPC as an additional definition
     of X3T10 procedures, specifically for electronic processing of
     committee actions.

14.  Meeting Schedule

The next plenary meeting of X3T10 will be September 12, 1996, in
Natick, MA at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza (508-653-8800), hosted by
Digital Equipment Corp.  The meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. on
Thursday.

The meeting list for the next plenary week is:
                      September `96 Meeting Map
                          (7/18/96 Version)

Monday 9/9     8   9   10  11  12  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9
                   +===========================================+
                   | SPI-2 Working Group           | EPI WG    |     (35)
                   +===================+===================+===+
                   |SBP-2 Working Group| Serial Issues SG  |         (20)
                   +===================+===================+

Tuesday 9/10       9   10  11  12  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8
                   +===========================================+
                   | SCSI-3 WG                       :*protocol|     (40)
                   +===================================+=======+
                   | MMC WG                            |             (20)
                   +-------------------------------+===+
                   | SCC/RAB WG    | RAB           |                 (25)
                   +===============+---------------+

Wednesday 9/11     9   10  11  12  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8
                   +===============================+-------+
                   | SCSI-3 WG                     |STATech|         (40)
                   +===============================+---+---+
                   | MMC Working Group                 |             (20)
                   +===================================+
                   | SFF SSWGs                         |             (40)
                   +-----------------------------------+-----------+
                   | RAB                                           | (25)
                   +-----------------------------------------------+

Thursday 9/12  8   9   10  11  12  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8
                   +---------------+
                   |  SFF          |                                 (40)
                   +---------------+===========================+
                                   | X3T10 Plenary Meeting     |     (70)
               +===================+===========================+
               |  SSC/SMC WG       |                                 (15)
               +=+=================+---------------+
                 | STA                             |                 (30)
                 +---------------------------------+

Friday 9/13    8   9   10  11  12  1   2   3   4   5

                 +=======================+
                 | Document Review       |                           (15)
                 +=+=====================+---------+
                   | X3T11 Jitter Study Group      |                 (35)
                   +-------------------------------+

    Meetings marked with == are X3T10-authorized meetings.
    Meetings marked with -- are authorized by other groups and may change
    without notice.
    *protocol - Time allocated for discussion of protocol document's
                compliance with SAM and service interface issues.

Meeting Map Abbreviation Key:
CAM:              Common Access Method
CAM-3:            Next generation CAM for SCSI-3
EPI:              SCSI Enhanced Parallel Interface (Technical Report)
DMTF              Desktop Management Task Force (not an X3 activity)
Fast-20:          Synchronous Data Transfer at 20
                  Megatransfers/second
FC-AL:            Fibre Channel - Arbitrated Loop (an X3T11 project)
FCLC:             Fibre Channel Loop Community (not an X3 activity)
I/F:              Interface
High Avail.:      High Availability
LB:               Letter Ballot
MMC:              SCSI-3 Multimedia Commands (CD-ROM)
PH:               Physical (Connectors, Cables, Transceivers, etc.)
Plenary:          Full Committee Meeting
RAB:              RAID Advisory Board (not an X3 activity)
RAID:             Redundant Array of Independent Devices
SBC:              SCSI-3 Block Commands
SBP:              SCSI-3 Serial Bus Protocol
SCC:              SCSI-3 Controller Commands (RAID)
SCSI:             Small Computer System Interface
SPC:              SCSI-3 Primary Commands
STA:              SCSI Trade Association (not an X3 activity)
STATech:          STA Technical Meeting (joint meeting with X3T10)
SFF:              SFF Industry Group (not an X3 activity)
SG:               Study Group
SMC:              SCSI-3 Medium Changer Commands
SPI-2:            Second Generation SCSI-3 Parallel Interface
SSA:              Serial Storage Interface
SSC:              SCSI-3 Stream Commands (includes Tape)
SSWGs:            Specific-Subject Working Groups
VHDCI             Very High Density Cabled Interconnect
WG:               Working Group (same as Ad Hoc Group)
X3T10:            Lower Level Interfaces Technical Committee
X3T10.1:          SSA Task Group of X3T10

Several other X3T10 events are also planned:

Event                Day/Date             Location/contact
 -------------------- -------------------- -------------------------------
SPI-2 Working Group  Tue-Wed 8/13-14/96   Milpitas, CA / Molina
SPI-2 Working Group  Thur    10/10/96     St Petersburg Beach, FL / Brill
SPI-2 Working Group  Thur    12/5/96      Bloomington, MN / Truestedt
SBP-2 Working Group  Tue     8/13/96      Redmond, WA / Johansson


For more information about X3T10 activities, please contact the
following people:

Activity                     Contact         Telephone/Email
 ---------------------------- ---------------   
 ------------------------------
BOOT TR                      Duncan Penman   (408) 730-2565
                                             penman at netcom.com
CAM-3                        Bill Dallas     (603) 881-2508
                                             dallas at wasted.enet.dec.com
EPI & SPI-2                  Bill Ham        (508) 841-2629
                                             ham at subsys.enet.dec.com
FCP & FCP-2                  Robert Snively  (415) 336-5332
                                             Bob.Snively at eng.sun.com
GPP                          Gary Stephens   (602) 321-1725
                                             6363897 at mcimail.com
SAM & SAM-2                  Charles Monia   (508) 841-6757
                                             monia at starch.enet.dec.com
SBC                          Gene Milligan   (405) 324-3070
                                             gene_milligan at notes.seagate.c  
om
SBP and MMC                  Ron Roberts     (916) 677-5714
                                             rkroberts at aol.com
SBP-2                        Peter Johansson (510) 531-5472
                                             pjohansson at aol.com
SGC                          Thomas Tewell   (415) 459-7978
                                             thomas.tewell at seqadvtech.com
SIP, SCC                     George Penokie  (507) 253-5208
                                             gop at rchvmp3.vnet.ibm.com
SMC                          Erich Oetting   (303) 673-2178
                                             Erich_Oetting at Stortek.com
SPC                          Ralph Weber     (214) 733-3594
                                             roweber at acm.org
SSA-PH1,-PH2,-TL1,-TL2       Larry Lamers    (408) 957-7817
                                             ljlamers at aol.com
SSA-S2P & -S3P               John Scheible   (512) 823-8208
                                             Scheible at vnet.ibm.com
SSC                          Edward Lappin   (303) 447-7718
                                             tedl at exabyte.com
Other Activities             John Lohmeyer   (719) 533-7560
                                             john.lohmeyer at symbios.com

The long-term X3T10 meeting week schedule is:

Date              Location                   Host/Comments
 ----------------  -------------------------  -------------------
Jan  8-12, 1996   Dallas, TX                 Quantum
Mar 11-15, 1996   Newport Beach, CA          QLogic
May  6-10, 1996   Ft. Lauderdale, FL         Adaptec
Jul 15-19, 1996   Colorado Springs, CO       Symbios Logic
Sep  9-13, 1996   Natick, MA (near Boston)   Digital
Nov  4- 8, 1996   Palm Springs, CA           Adaptec
Jan  6-10, 1997   Dallas, TX                 Quantum
Mar 10-14, 1997   San Diego, CA              QLogic
May  5-9,  1997   Natick, MA (near Boston)   Digital
Jul 14-18, 1997   Colorado Springs, CO       Symbios Logic
Sep  8-12, 1997   Nashua, NH                 Unitrode
Nov  3-7,  1997   Palm Springs, CA           Adaptec
1998 dates are firm; locations and hosts are accepted, but tentative
Jan  5-9,  1998   Dallas, TX                 Quantum
Mar  9-13, 1998   San Diego, CA              QLogic
May  4-8,  1998   Colorado Springs, CO       Symbios Logic
Jul 13-17, 1998   Portland, ME               Digital
Sep 14-18, 1998   St. Petersburg Beach, FL   AMP
Nov  9-13, 1998   Palm Springs, CA           Adaptec

14.1 Authorization of Working Group Meetings

John noted that the working group meetings are required to operate
under the same voting procedures as does X3T10 (that is, one vote per
organization) and the results of a working group are not binding on
the parent committee.  This later requirement is why we have
traditionally only used non-binding straw polls in working group
meetings.  Any issue where the voting rules would make a difference
should be deferred to the plenary group.  Nonetheless, task groups
and ad hoc groups should strive to achieve consensus prior to
bringing issues to X3T10.

Charles Monia moved that X3T10 authorize the X3T10-related meetings
and events in the list above.  Erich Oetting seconded the motion.
The motion passed unanimously.

There were seven volunteers to host meetings in 1998; those shown
above plus Hitachi Cable (voluteered for any month, but preferred
July).  A straw poll was taken and those present preferred the
Portland location to the Manchester location.  John suggested that
Hitachi Cable be given priority if they choose to volunteer to host
in 1999.  Charles Monia moved that X3T10 accept the 1998 locations
and hosts shown above.  Skip Jones seconded the motion.  The motion
passed 22:0.

15.  Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 7:22 p.m. on Thursday July 18, 1996.
Meeting Attendees -- Enclosure (1)

         Name          S        Organization         Electronic Mail
Address
 ---------------------- -- -------------------------   
 -------------------------
Mr. Norm Harris        P  Adaptec, Inc.   
            nharris at eng.adaptec.com
Mr. Lawrence J. Lamers A  Adaptec, Inc.             ljlamers at aol.com
Mr. Charles Brill      P  AMP, Inc.                 cebrill at amp.com
Mr. Jan V. Dedek       P  Ancot Corp.               dedek at ancot.com
Mr. Ron Roberts        A  Apple Computer            rkroberts at aol.com
Mr. Douglas Wagner     O  Berg Electronics          jpxw76a at prodigy.com
Mr. Raymond Gilson     A  Ciprico Inc.              rwg at ciprico.com
Mr. Ian Morrell        P  Circuit Assembly Corp.    ianm at ca-online.com
Mr. Nicos Syrimis      A# Cirrus Logic Inc.         nicos at corp.cirrus.com
Mr. Bill Galloway      O  Compaq Computer Corp.   
    billg at bangate.compaq.com
Mr. Peter Johansson    P  Congruent Software, Inc.  pjohansson at aol.com
Mr. Louis Grantham     P  Dallas Semiconductor      grantham at dalsemi.com
Mr. Greg McSorley      O  Data General Corp.   
       greg_mcsorley at dgc.ceo.dg.
                                                    com
Mr. Charles Monia      P  Digital Equipment Corp.   monia at shr.dec.com
Dr. William Ham        A# Digital Equipment Corp.   
  ham at subsys.enet.dec.com
Mr. William Dallas     A# Digital Equipment Corp.   
  dallas at wasted.enet.dec.com
Mr. Roger Cummings     P  Distributed Processing   
   cummings_roger at dpt.com
                          Tech.
Mr. Robert Reisch      P  Eastman Kodak Co.         reisch at kodak.com
Mr. Edward Lappin      P  Exabyte Corp.             tedl at exabyte.com
Mr. Gary R. Stephens   P  FSI Consulting Services   6363897 at mcimail.com
Mr. Andy Chen          A  Fujitsu Computer Prods   
   achen at fcpa.fujitsu.com
                          Amer
Mr. Joel Urban         O  Harting Elektronik
Mr. J. R. Sims         A  Hewlett Packard Co.   
      robsims at depeche.lvld.hp.
                                                    com
Mr. Anthony Yang       A# Hitachi America Ltd.   
     yang_a at halsp.hitachi.com
Mr. Zane Daggett       P  Hitachi Cable   
            zdaggett at hcm.hitachi.com
                          Manchester,Inc
Mr. Thomas J. Kulesza  P  Honda Connectors
Mr. George Penokie     P  IBM Corp.   
                gop at rchvmp3.vnet.ibm.com
Mr. Dan Colegrove      A# IBM Corp.   
                colegrove at vnet.ibm.com
Mr. Robert Basham      O  IBM Corp.                 robbyb at vnet.ibm.com
Mr. Dean Wallace       P  Linfinity Micro   
          75671.3443 at compuserve.com
Mr. Robert Bellino     P  Madison Cable Corp.   
      robert_bellino at madisonusa
                                                    .ccmail.compuserve.com  

Mr. Pete McLean        P  Maxtor Corp.   
             pete_mclean at maxtor.com
Mr. Jay Neer           A  Molex Inc.                jneer at molex.com
Mr. Anthony E. Pione   P  Oak Technology, Inc.      AnthonyP at oaktech.com
Mr. Edward A. Gardner  P  Ophidian Designs          gardner at acm.org
Mr. Stephen F. Heil    P  Panasonic Technologies,   
  sfh at research.panasonic.com
                          Inc
Mr. Bill McFerrin      P  Philips KMG               BMcFerrin at aol.com
Mr. Skip Jones         P  QLogic Corp.              sk_jones at qlc.com
Mr. Gene Milligan      P  Seagate Technology        Gene_Milligan at notes.
                                                    seagate.com
Mr. Dave Guss          P  Silicon Systems, Inc.   
    dave.guss at tus.ssi1.com
Mr. Mike Yokoyama      P  Sony Electronics, Inc.   
   yokoyama at dss.sel.sony.com
Mr. Erich Oetting      P  Storage Technology Corp.   
 Erich_Oetting at Stortek.com
Mr. Robert N. Snively  P  Sun Microsystems Computer   
bob.snively at eng.sun.com
                          Co
Mr. John Lohmeyer      P  Symbios Logic Inc.   
       john.lohmeyer at symbios.com
Mr. Ralph O. Weber     A# Symbios Logic Inc.        roweber at acm.org
Mr. Akram Atallah      A  SyQuest Technology, Inc.   
 akram.atallah at syquest.com
Mr. John Moy           P  Tandem Computers          moy_john at tandem.com
Mr. Tokuyuki Totani    P  Toshiba America           totani at ix.netcom.com
Mr. Arlan P. Stone     A  UNISYS Corporation   
       arlan.stone at mv.unisys.com
Mr. Paul D. Aloisi     P  Unitrode Integrated       Aloisi at uicc.com
                          Circuits
Mr. Jeffrey L.         P  Western Digital   
          jwilliam at wdroc.wdc.com
Williams                  Corporation

51 People Present

Status Key:  P    -  Principal
             A,A# -  Alternate
             O    -  Observer
             L    -  Liaison
             V    -  Visitor

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