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NCITS Announces the Public Comment Period for NCITS 318:199x, Information technology - SCSI Controller Commands-2 (SCC-2)

NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards)

NEWS RELEASE

Doc. No.: PR/97-155
Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us

NCITS Announces the Public Comment Period for NCITS 318:199x,
Information technology - SCSI Controller Commands-2 (SCC-2)

Washington D.C., December 1997 - NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards) is announcing the public comment period for NCITS 318:199x. Development of this draft standard is being done in Technical Committee T10, I/O Interface - Lower Level.

The public review extends from December 19, 1997 to February 17, 1998.

This standard defines the command set extensions to facilitate operation of SCSI storage array devices. Clauses of this standard pertaining to the SCSI storage array device class, implemented in conjunction with the applicable clauses within any of the SCSI command standards, shall specify the standard command set available for SCSI storage arrays.

The objective of the SCSI Controller Commands is to provide the following:

a) Transfer commands unique to SCSI Controller Command devices;
b) Control commands to manage the operation of an SCSI Controller
Command device;
c) Optional device mapping and pass-through support.

Submit all comments to: NCITS Secretariat, Attn.: Deborah J. Donovan, 1250 Eye Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005, Email: ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us. Send a copy to: ANSI, Attn.: BSR Center, 11 West 42nd St., New York, NY 10036 (wluk@ansi.org).

A call for possible patents and pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is also 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

Copies of NCITS 318:199x can be purchased from Global Engineering Documents, 15 Inverness Way East, Englewood, CO 80112-5704.
1-800-854-7179 or 303-792-2181.