1. T11.5 Status for IMSS Roger Cummings Chair, TG T11.5 VERITAS Software roger.cummings@veritas.com 04-538v0

2. Topics Reprise of INCITS, T11 & Cooperative Strategy Status of MIB Projects in T11.5

3. 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 detailswww.incits.org

4. 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.http://www.t11.org Nearly all widely-used storage peripheral interfaces for last 20 years defined by these committees

5. INCITS Standards T10T11T13 SCSI commands (disk, tape, mmc) SCSI parallel SAS FIPS 60 (block mux) IPI HIPPI Parallel HIPPI Serial Fibre Channel ATA (now @ 7 th gen) ATAPI

6. 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

7. 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 grouphttp://www.t11.org/t11/stat.nsf/tg5

8. 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 detailshttp://www.t11.org/t11/vote.nsf/xbals

9. 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

10. 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 @ 62 nd IETF (March 2005)