MEMBERSHIP IN TC T11 & TGs T11.1 & T11.2


GAINING & LOSING MEMBERSHIP

DOCUMENT SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE

MEMBERSHIPS IN JEOPARDY


The following member organizations are in jeopardy for failure to attend meetings:

AMCC

Arcxel

Cray Research

W. L Gore

Hirose Electric

Lucent Technologies

Orca Systems

Panasonic

Tensolite

Vitesse Semiconductor

Vixel

MEMBERSHIPS IN JEOPARDY

There were no letter ballots in the last mailing.

The following member organizations are STILL in jeopardy for failure to return letter ballots, and will lose their membership in T11 unless they return at least one letter ballot from the next mailing:

AMCC

Arcxel

Cray Research

Molex

Panasonic

Qlogic

Technitrol

NEW MEMBERS AND CHANGES

New members

Mylex Corporation becomes a new member organization with Colin L. Schaffer as the Principal Representative, & Brain McKean as the Alternate Representative

Returning members

EMC returns as a member organization, with Brian Gallagher as the Principal Representative, Chris Mulvey as the Alternate Representative, and Mark Lippitt & Jim McGillis as Additional Alternate Representatives.

Name Change

Computing Devices International has been purchased by General Dynamics, and the name of its T11 membership has changed is response. Robert K. Pedersen remains the Principal Representative, and Jay E. Mork the Alternate Representative

NEW MEMBERS AND CHANGES

Resignations

VLSI Technology resigns its membership in T11

Changes

Scott Hilliker is added as an Additional Alternate for Northrup Grumman

Fred Van Roessel becomes the Principal Representative for Panasonic, replacing Ren Franse who in turn replaces Akinori Abe as the Alternate Representative.

Fred Weniger becomes the Alternate Representative for Vitesee Semiconductor, replacing John Schaefer. Bob Rumer remains the Principal Representative.

NEW MEMBERS AND CHANGES

Changes (Continued)

Horst Truestedt (of ENDL Associates) becomes the Alternate Representative for Vixel, replacing Bruce E. Johnson. Tom Lindsay remains the Principal Representative.

NCITS LIAISON REPORT
  1. NCITS has not met since the last T11 meeting
  2. NCITS Letter Ballots for the final approval of TR-19 (FC-PLDA) & TR-20 (FC-FLA) closed on on 12/29 and passed. Both document are now in the publication cycle
  3. TR-18 (10 bit Interface TR, finally published)
  4. Revised IPI-3 Disk (X3.291:1997) and Revised IPI-3 Tape (X3.290:1997) both received BSR approval and are being published
  5. NCITS Letter Ballot on FC-10KCR closed on 2/6/98
  6. NCITS meets 3/23-25 in Reston, VA

OMC LIAISON REPORT
  1. OMC met 1/8-9 in San Francisco, CA
    1. Minutes of this meeting not yet available
    2. Compliance Reviews of Revised HIPPI-FP & FC-SW took place successfully. Their first Public Review period is from 1/16 - 3/17.
    3. Management Review of FC-PH-3 took place successfully. A 2PR was not deemed necessary. The NCITS LB for final approval closes on 2/23.
    4. FC-AL-3, FC-PI'98 & FC-SW-2 Project Proposals recommended for approval. NCITS Leter Ballots on all three close on 3/7.
    5. Request to for T11.3 & T11.4 were recommended for approval. NCITS Letter Ballots were issued on 2/6/98.
  2. OMC meets 3/23-25 in Reston, VA
    1. Mailing date for this meeting is 3/2
  3. The demise of OMC has apparently been extended to beyond the May meeting

IEEE LIAISON REPORT

One draft received by T11 Chair for coordination this month:

1) 802.3z/D4.0

Supplement to Information Technology - LAN/MAN Part 3: CSMA/CD Access Method and Physical LayerSpecifications - Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers, Repeater and Management Parameters for 1,000 Mb/s Operation (Deadline for Comments 01/26/98)

PATENTS
  1. A call is hereby issued for the existence of patents required to implement any & all T11 standards to be disclosed
    1. It is necessary for the holders to agree to license those patents in conformance with the ANSI patent policy if the project on which they read is to proceed
    2. T11 is not involved in this process @ all !
  2. The contact @ ANSI is the General Counsel, Ms. Amy Marasco - (212)642-4954 or amarasco@ansi.org
  3. Patent policy description @ www.ansi.org/proctbl.html, section 1.2.11
  4. IBM has declared that it has patents which apply to the practice of FC & SBCON. The contact is:

Mr. Walter Willigan, IBM Corp., 500 Columbus Ave., Thornwood, N.Y. 10594

OFFICER APPOINTMENTS
  1. Call for Chairs of TGs T11.1 and T11.2 issued, closed on 12/5/97 with only one volunteer for each position
    1. Should have been considered 2 1/98 OMC, was not done due to Secretariat error

REORGANIZATION
  1. 1/98 OMC meeting recommend approval of the Request to form T11.3 & T11.4
  2. Expect to hold the organizational meeting of those groups in April
    1. As before, anybody attending this first meeting and requesting membership is granted it instantly !
  3. Again, following people have agreed to act as interim officers for these TGs:
    1. T11.3 - Rich Taborek (G2 Networks) as Chair & Jeff Stai (Brocade Communications) as Vice Chair
    2. T11.4 - Ed Lee of EMF Associates as Chair

FTP AND WEB SITES FOR T11
  1. Recently the long-dormant "members only" link from the T11 home page came to life. Links now provided to:
    1. Online document register with a twistie-driven display starting from years and hundreds of documents, and with a button to submit a document for numbering
    2. Online people database a twistie-driven display starting from the initial letter of the surname, and with a button to change address and other details
    3. Online ballot database to support web balloting
    4. Online meeting database with buttons to create ad hoc meeting notice and plenary week meeting announcements
  2. All of the above is interlinked to support "instant" updates without any administrative overhead
  3. Will start over the next two months to drive the rest of the web page from the databases as well

FTP AND WEB SITES FOR T11
  1. Thanks to all of those people (especially Jeff Stai) who have struggled through the lousy ergonomics of the present forms:
    1. All feedback is being considered, and things will get better as I learn more about the system
    2. I'm so close to this system, I cannot see it anymore - I need YOU to be the test team
  2. The ability to change a "person record" will be online on 2/18 with a caveat:
    1. When you go into edit mode IF an authorization window appears asking for a User Id and password enter a user ID of t11member/DPT with the usual password. You will also have to enter the invoice number on the form to complete the edit.
    2. This is not me getting paranoid, it is a bug in the database template which we are working on fixing.
  3. The password for t11member will change on 2/20 to the present location as one word with no space (all lowercase)
    1. You MUST use this User ID & password combination to upload to /t11/member/incoming (even if you have another ID on the ftp machine)

FTP AND WEB SITES FOR T11
  1. The databases are now there, the ergonomics are getting there
  2. The usefulness of this system is dependent on the quality of the information entered:
    1. Please do your very best to completely fill out the forms
    2. Especially fill out the "Project" and "Meeting" pulldowns on the Document form to the best of you knowledge
    3. If you can suggest some more or better help text, please let me know
  3. The way that all of the forms work is that when you press the submit button, all of the fields are validated:
    1. If the validation fails, some simple text is sent to the browser identifying the failure
    2. Use your browsers back button to go back to the form, correct the problem and press submit again etc.etc.
    3. Once the form is accepted, DO NOT press the Submit button again !

FTP AND WEB SITES FOR T11
  1. Some people have been having problems uploading to a non-anonymous directory. Here is the current state of my knowledge:
    1. Internet Explorer does not seem to support uploads
    2. Netscape Navigator Rev 2.0 and later products can work if your firewall is configured to allow it and you use the URL:
      1. ftp://t11member@ftp.t11.org/t11/member/incoming
      2. If the above works, you should be prompted for a password. If you are not, it will not work
    3. You can upload via AOL using the "other site" link, and click the box to enter the User ID and Password
    4. For people using graphical FTP clients, please make sure to deselect anonymous login and enter both the user ID and the password (some clients fill in "guest@" if you do not put in the password, and that will NOT give you write privileges)
    5. For Windows95 users, go to an MS-DOS prompt and use an ftp client as per the next page

FTP AND WEB SITES FOR T11

C:\WINDOWS>ftp ftp.t11.org

Connected to ns1.t11.org.

220 ns1.dpt.com FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-9](1) Thu Feb 29 15:50:44 EST 1996) ready.

User (ns1.t11.org:(none)): t11member

331 Password required for t11member.

Password:

230 User t11member logged in. Access restrictions apply.

ftp> bin

200 Type set to I.

ftp> cd t11/member/incoming

250 CWD command successful.

ftp> bin

200 Type set to I.

ftp> put test.pdf

200 PORT command successful.

150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for test.pdf.

226 Transfer complete.

766 bytes sent in 0.00 seconds (766000.00 Kbytes/sec)

ftp> bye

221 Goodbye.



REFLECTORS
  1. FC-AE reflector will be established shortly @ DPT
  2. Please note that the size limit for all the reflectors @ Network Systems & @ DPT is 40 kilobytes
    1. For documents beyond this limit, upload them to ftp.t11.org/t11/member/incoming using the "t11member" user ID, and then announce the location via the reflector
    2. The directory can be read via normal anonymous access (do not disclose the user ID & password)

ELECTRONIC MAILINGS
  1. Stay tuned for the first installment
  2. Deadline of 2/19 11.59 pm for documents to be numbered and submitted to ftp.t11.org for inclusion in the next and first electronic mailing