T11-2023-00375-v001, November 17, 2023                                      

Draft Agenda

Technical Committee INCITS/Fibre Channel (T11)

Plenary Meeting #180

December 7, 2023 Hybrid Meeting

(Remote access information)

1       Opening Remarks and Introductions

1.1        Introductory remarks

1.2        Introductions

1.2.1   Officer appointments (Officers)

1.2.2   Self-introductions

1.2.3   Call for guests and journalists

1.3        Operating under INCITS procedures (https://www.incits.org/standards-information/policies)

1.3.1   Operating under public access rules (public access notification)

Technical document distribution (https://standards.incits.org/apps/org/workgroup/t11/documents.php)

Meeting document distribution (https://standards.incits.org/apps/org/workgroup/t11/documents.php?folder_id=2229)

See the public link (www.t11.org) in the INCITS Committee Management System (ICMS) on the INCITS website (http://www.incits.org)

1.3.2   INCITS Code of Conduct (Code of Conduct)

1.3.3   Anti-Trust Guidelines (Sensitive Topics)

1.3.4   Patent Policy Information (Patent Policy)

Patent information overview (https://www.incits.org/standards-information/legal-info)

Patent information registry (https://standards.incits.org/apps/group_public/documents.php?&wg_abbrev=patents)

See INCITS Patent Policy Overview: INCITS Patent Policy Slides for IOE Meetings under Patent Policy

1.3.5   Call for patents

2       Attendance and Membership

2.1        Gaining and Losing Voting Membership (https://www.incits.org/participation/membership-info)

As an active participant, you are encouraged to become a member (https://www.incits.org/standards-information/policies)

See INCITS Organization, Policies and Procedures - Organization and Structure/Categories of Membership/TCs, TGs, and SGs (Policies and Procedures)

2.2        Record Attendance

December meeting reference (https://standards.incits.org/apps/org/workgroup/t11/event.php?event_id=7491)

Meeting attendance is required to maintain membership, so please sign-in online using ICMS

Refer to the attendance link in the T11 calendar entry on the INCITS website (www.incits.org)

2.3        Membership for this meeting

2.3.1   Changes in representation since last meeting

2.3.1.1      New voting members

2.3.1.2      Voting memberships in jeopardy for attendance, for non-payment of dues, or not voting on letter ballots

2.3.2   T11 voting and advisory memberships for this meeting

T11 roster reference (https://standards.incits.org/apps/org/workgroup/t11/members/roster.php)

2.4        Call for quorum

3       Approval of the Agenda (T11-2023-00375-v003)

4       Minutes of the previous meeting

4.1        Review of Old Action Items

4.2        Approval of Minutes of T11 Plenary meeting #179 (T11-2023-00359-v000)

5       Technical Committee and Task Group Reports

5.1        Review of T11 Project and Proposal Status

5.1.1   Project Status Review (Projects)

5.1.2   National Project Status Report (National Project Status Report)

5.1.3   T11 Project Activity

5.1.3.1      FC-FS-6 Public Review (T11-2023-00296-v000, status)

INCITS 562-202x: (FC-FS-6) Information technology - Fibre Channel - Framing and Signaling - 6 (FC-FS-6)

Submission of BSR-8 form to ANSI to initiate the 60-day public review and comment period.

Start Date:  2023-11-03

End Date:  2024-01-02

5.1.4   Project Proposals

5.2        T11 Letter Ballots Results

5.3        Task Group T11.2 - Physical Interfaces

5.3.1   T11.2 Plenary meeting Report (T11-2023-00tbd-v000)

5.3.2   Actions

5.3.3   Other items

5.4        Task Group T11.3 - Interconnection Schemes

5.4.1   T11.3 Plenary meeting Report (T11-2023-00tbd-v000)

5.4.2   Actions

5.4.3   Other items

5.5        Joint T11.2/T11.3 Items

5.5.1   Joint T11.2/T11.3 Report (T11-2023-00tbd-v000)

5.5.2   Actions

5.5.3   Other items

5.6        Review of International Activity

5.6.1   INCITS Computer Systems Interconnection Status Report (T11-2023-00tbd-v000)

6       Liaison Reports

6.1        T11 Report (T11-2023-00367-v000)

6.2        INCITS Report (T11-2023-00370-v001)

6.3        TC T10 Report (T11-2023-00000-v000)

6.4        FCIA Report (T11-2023-00000-v000)

6.5        IEEE Report (T11-2023-00000-v000)

6.6        SNIA Report (T11-2023-00000-v000)

6.7        NVMe Report (verbal)

7       Old Business

7.1        T11 Project Organization on ICMS (T11-2023-00007-v003)

7.2        Meeting attendance and hosting (T11-2023-00381-v001)

7.2.1   Study Group report

7.2.2   INCITS EB notice on remote access requirement

8       New Business

8.1        Members review company rosters (TC, TG, and EG)

9       Future Meeting Schedule

9.1        Approval of schedule, hosts, and venues

9.1.1   Approval of February 2024 meeting venue (TBD)

9.1.2   Approval of 2025-2026 meeting schedule (2025-2026 Meeting Schedule)

9.2        Next meeting

9.2.1   February 2024 meeting information, Hybrid (FibreChannel February 2024)

9.2.2   February 2024 meeting map (Meeting_Map_Feb_2024 F2F.txt)

9.3        Request for hosts

9.3.1   Current meeting venues and schedule (2023-2024 Meeting Schedule)

9.3.2   Guidelines for hosting (T11-2017-00151-v000)

9.3.3   Letter to travel representatives on hotel rates (T11-2023-00011-v000)

9.4        Authorization of Ad Hoc groups, Expert groups, and meetings

Note:  Authorization for Ad Hoc groups, Expert groups, and meetings are approved by their respective TGs

10    Review of Action Items

11    Final attendance check

12    Adjournment