T11.5 Status for IMSS

Roger Cummings

Chair, TG T11.5

VERITAS Software

roger.cummings@veritas.com

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Topics

• Reprise of INCITS, T11 & Cooperative Strategy

• Status of MIB Projects in T11.5

INCITS

• International Committee for Information Technology Standardization– Called X3 for many years up to 1998– Had to change because of “web search

problem”– Holds the US TAG for several key ISO

groups

• See www.incits.org for details

Storage Interface Committees

• First formed pre-1977• Splits occurred in 1982 & 1995• The committee names all changed in 1993 as

well• Now 3 active groups – T10, T11, T13

– See http://www.t11.org etc.

• Nearly all widely-used storage peripheral interfaces for last 20 years defined by these committees

INCITS Standards

T10T10 T11T11 T13T13

SCSI commands

(disk, tape, mmc)

SCSI parallel

SAS

FIPS 60

(block mux)

IPI

HIPPI Parallel

HIPPI Serial

Fibre Channel

ATA

(now @ 7th gen)

ATAPI

Cooperative Strategy

• Intend is to coordinate activities between INCITS & IMSS to:– Ensure timeliness wrt other work– Follow latest IETF directions, take advantage of

expertise

• T11.5 has approved a process for this:– Run an internal project as usual, including Letter

Ballot, on a draft MIB– When all issues that can be resolved are done,

transfer change control to IMSS

Project Status

• First two MIB projects approved in T11.5 in December 2003– Name Server MIB– Domain Manager MIB (decided to change

name to Fabric Address Manager MIB is better mesh with other T11 projects)

• See http://www.t11.org/t11/stat.nsf/tg5 for full details of the management group

Project Status

• T11 takes “formal” online ballots on “drafts” as part of approval process– Ballots closed 6/03/2004

• Domain Manager MIB (called SM-FAM) Y38-N02-A12-DNV03 (1 yes ballots included comments) – 99 comments total

• Name Server MIB (called SM-NSM) Y38-N02-A12-DNV03 (3 yes ballots included comments) – 86 comments total

– See http://www.t11.org/t11/vote.nsf/xbals for full details

Project Status

• T11.5 hoped to have comment resolution completed in time to submit completed internet-drafts for this meeting– Apologies for the fact that this didn’t happen– Group met twice in July, is meeting later this week

in Colorado, and again in October– Target is to submit for November IETF

Project Status

• Also approved two new projects– Routing Information MIB (called SM-RTM)– Fibre Shortest Path First (FSPF, called

SM-FSM)

• Target is to pass completed drafts to imss @ 62nd IETF (March 2005)