SSSWG NEWS

17-19 July: SSSWG Meets in Louisville, Colorado

27 June: Curtis Anderson attends SNIA/SMLWG, Colorado Springs, to continue SSSWG-SMLWG cooperation

April: Curtis Anderson and Bruce Haddon
make presentations to the IEEE Mass Storage Systems Symposium
(presentations available at http://storageconference.org/2001)

The IEEE approved four (Architecture, MMP, DMP, LMP) of the first five Media Management System (MMS) standards on June 21, 2000, and the fifth (SSAIP) on December 7, 2000.

The IEEE lists these five for sale at:
http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/storagesys.html

SSSWG is working on other projects for tape driver semantics and self-describing data on tape,
the Guide for Storage System Design, and further MMS standards.
See http://www.ieee-sssc.org/projects.html.

Industry commentary on the IEEE Storage Systems Standards announcement:
http://is.pennnet.com/home/archivearticles.cfm?Section=Archives&ARTICLE_ID=83497&VERSION_NUM=1&KEYWORD=standards
(must establish free login for InfoStor article above.)

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