All, A colleague of ours, Curtis Anderson, is calling a working meeting of the IEEE 1244 removable media standards. Since our MMS project is based on this standard, I thought I'd post the meeting notice.
Regards, - Greg Matthews From Curtis: -------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, Next month the IEEE Storage Systems Standards Committee will begin a revision of the IEEE 1244-2000 suite of standards. They define a removable-media management system designed to catalog and automate access to a collection of virtual or physical tapes or other media that is stored in automated (robotic or virtual) libraries. The system defined by the standards is: * Vendor-independent and heterogeneous * SAN-aware so that drives and libraries can be shared between hosts and apps * Includes cataloging of media, access control policies, and library automation * Based on a plugin architecture that allows incremental growth and migration * Accessed via simple TCP/IP text-based protocols There are currently two implementations of the standard: * The ADM project in OpenSolaris (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/mms) * The OpenVault project on SourceForge (http://openvault.sourceforge.net), I invite anyone who is interested in participating to contact me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so that I can schedule an initial kick-off meeting time that is convenient for all. There will be face-to-face meetings but there will always be conference-call access, so travel is not required to participate. Please also forward this invitation to anyone or any email list that you think might be interested. Best regards, Curtis Anderson, Chair IEEE SSSC [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
