MEMBERSHIP IN TC T11 & TGs T11.1 & T11.2
- Membership open to organizations directly and materially
affected by the scope of T11 that are willing to participate
regularly and pay the designated service fee
- In order to be in the voting member category, consultant
organizations shall have to declare that their participation
is not being funded by any organization already having
voting membership.
- In a "traditional" membership, each organization appoints one
Principal representative, may appoint one or more Alternate
representatives (no fee for 1st alternate)
- In 1998 an "organizational" membership is being offered on a
trial basis. This allows one Principal representative and
unlimited Alternate representatives on the TC and its TGs
- Names of all representatives must be designated in writing to
both the group Chair and the Secretariat (e-mail OK)
- Memberships in the TC (T11) and the TGs are all completely
separate EXCEPT:
- A TC member organization is not assessed fees for TG
memberships
GAINING & LOSING MEMBERSHIP
- To obtain membership:
- Attend one Plenary meeting of the group as an Observer
- Fill in form(s) on the web page (www.t11.org) and send
to NCITS with a copy to the T11 Chair
- Can vote @ 2nd Plenary attended
- Pay fees when invoiced (can change mailing type at time
of invoice)
- Lose membership by failing to:
- Attend 2 of 3 successive plenary meetings (jeopardy) &
the plenary meeting following being warned
- Return Letter Ballots from 2 successive mailings
(jeopardy) & the LB following being warned
- Pay the fees in the time define by the Secretariat
DOCUMENT SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE
- Service provided by Secretariat (NCITS):
- Have to be @ least Observer of a T11 group to obtain the
paper mailing (anybody can receive the cd mailing)
- Delivered bimonthly
- Choices are:
- paper @ $1000/year US/Canada, $2000/year else
- T11 CD-ROM @ $300/year US/Canada, $400/year
else
- ENDL CD_Access @ $480/year US/Canada,
$580/year else
- Application form on web site (www.t11.org) under the admin
link, membership forms there too (all in PDF)
- Return to NCITS Secretariat, not T11 Officers
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
- NCITS has not met since the last T11 meeting
- 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
- TR-18 (10 bit Interface TR, finally published)
- Revised IPI-3 Disk (X3.291:1997) and Revised IPI-3 Tape
(X3.290:1997) both received BSR approval and are being
published
- NCITS Letter Ballot on FC-10KCR closed on 2/6/98
- NCITS meets 3/23-25 in Reston, VA
OMC LIAISON REPORT
- OMC met 1/8-9 in San Francisco, CA
- Minutes of this meeting not yet available
- Compliance Reviews of Revised HIPPI-FP & FC-SW took
place successfully. Their first Public Review period is
from 1/16 - 3/17.
- 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.
- FC-AL-3, FC-PI'98 & FC-SW-2 Project Proposals
recommended for approval. NCITS Leter Ballots on all
three close on 3/7.
- Request to for T11.3 & T11.4 were recommended for
approval. NCITS Letter Ballots were issued on 2/6/98.
- OMC meets 3/23-25 in Reston, VA
- Mailing date for this meeting is 3/2
- 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
- A call is hereby issued for the existence of patents required to
implement any & all T11 standards to be disclosed
- 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
- T11 is not involved in this process @ all !
- The contact @ ANSI is the General Counsel, Ms. Amy
Marasco - (212)642-4954 or amarasco@ansi.org
- Patent policy description @ www.ansi.org/proctbl.html,
section 1.2.11
- 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
- Call for Chairs of TGs T11.1 and T11.2 issued, closed on
12/5/97 with only one volunteer for each position
- Should have been considered 2 1/98 OMC, was not done
due to Secretariat error
REORGANIZATION
- 1/98 OMC meeting recommend approval of the Request to
form T11.3 & T11.4
- Expect to hold the organizational meeting of those groups in
April
- As before, anybody attending this first meeting and
requesting membership is granted it instantly !
- Again, following people have agreed to act as interim officers
for these TGs:
- T11.3 - Rich Taborek (G2 Networks) as Chair & Jeff Stai
(Brocade Communications) as Vice Chair
- T11.4 - Ed Lee of EMF Associates as Chair
FTP AND WEB SITES FOR T11
- Recently the long-dormant "members only" link from the T11
home page came to life. Links now provided to:
- 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
- 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
- Online ballot database to support web balloting
- Online meeting database with buttons to create ad hoc
meeting notice and plenary week meeting announcements
- All of the above is interlinked to support "instant" updates
without any administrative overhead
- 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
- Thanks to all of those people (especially Jeff Stai) who have
struggled through the lousy ergonomics of the present forms:
- All feedback is being considered, and things will get
better as I learn more about the system
- I'm so close to this system, I cannot see it anymore - I
need YOU to be the test team
- The ability to change a "person record" will be online on 2/18
with a caveat:
- 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.
- This is not me getting paranoid, it is a bug in the
database template which we are working on fixing.
- The password for t11member will change on 2/20 to the
present location as one word with no space (all lowercase)
- 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
- The databases are now there, the ergonomics are getting
there
- The usefulness of this system is dependent on the quality of
the information entered:
- Please do your very best to completely fill out the forms
- Especially fill out the "Project" and "Meeting" pulldowns
on the Document form to the best of you knowledge
- If you can suggest some more or better help text, please
let me know
- The way that all of the forms work is that when you press the
submit button, all of the fields are validated:
- If the validation fails, some simple text is sent to the
browser identifying the failure
- Use your browsers back button to go back to the form,
correct the problem and press submit again etc.etc.
- Once the form is accepted, DO NOT press the Submit
button again !
FTP AND WEB SITES FOR T11
- Some people have been having problems uploading to a non-anonymous directory. Here is the current state of my
knowledge:
- Internet Explorer does not seem to support uploads
- Netscape Navigator Rev 2.0 and later products can work
if your firewall is configured to allow it and you use the
URL:
- ftp://t11member@ftp.t11.org/t11/member/incoming
- If the above works, you should be prompted for a
password. If you are not, it will not work
- You can upload via AOL using the "other site" link, and
click the box to enter the User ID and Password
- 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)
- 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
- FC-AE reflector will be established shortly @ DPT
- Please note that the size limit for all the reflectors @ Network
Systems & @ DPT is 40 kilobytes
- 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
- The directory can be read via normal anonymous access
(do not disclose the user ID & password)
ELECTRONIC MAILINGS
- Stay tuned for the first installment
- 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