Note: This site was frozen in April, 2002 ... it exists only as a resource for further 1394 development.

1394b is a published document of the IEEE as IEEE Std 1394b-2002 and can be obtained at the IEEE Standards Store. Draft documents on this website are not official standards and should not be used to determine compliance with IEEE Std 1394b-2002. The current chair of the IEEE 1394 working group is Peter Johansson.

P1394B (Gigabit 1394)

Important!

Meeting information

The 0.90 draft was forwarded the editing group for final review and edits at the October 12, 1999, meeting. No further plenary meetings are planned. The 1.01 draft received 80% positive votes on the first round in April, 2000, but some major technical comments were received that had to be addressed by a Ballot Review Comittee which met several times during 2000 (the various working documents are noted below). The Ballot Review Committe produced a new draft document 1.20, which passed the 2nd round ballot in May 2001. Further changes were required based on that ballot, which has resulted in draft 1.33. If you want to participate in the discussion of newer drafts or to contribute to the BRC, please contact the chair, David Wooten.

Current documents

(reverse chronological order - most recent first):

General:

• P1394b presentation to DVB-IHDN meeting from Colin Whitby-Strevens
• Draft 1.1 of the 1394 Open Host Controller Interface
• Original PAR (Project Action Request and it's update).

From 2001:

• Ballot responses to be sent with 2nd round ballot from David Wooten
• Combined SCAT and C-code bugs list for 2nd round ballot from Colin Whitby-Strevens

From 2000:

• BRC minutes from Dec 13 & 14 from Steve Bard
• BRC minutes from Sept 20 through Sept 22 and Ballot Response Action Table from Steve Bard
• Combined SCAT and C-code bugs list from Colin Whitby-Strevens
• BRC minutes from August 29 and 30 from Steve Bard
• BRC meeting minutes of June 23 from Steve Bard

Older documents:

• Working group documents from 1999
• Working group documents from 1998
• Working group documents from 1997

Useful other documentation includes:

• Fibre Channel Jitter Tolerance specification. This is a nice document that we may need to reference.

Draft document

The last publicly available version of p1394b is Draft 1.33. Older drafts are available by clicking here or via FTP (but see the note about FTP below) at ftp://ftp.zayante.com/p1394b/drafts. (Netscape users, try ftp://ftp.zayante.com/FTP/pub/p1394b/drafts ... goes to show you that not even Netscape can follow internet standards without tripping up).

The c-code referenced in the draft can be accessed as raw ASCII files in the code directory.

Important: the drafts available via this site are only working copies. They cannot be considered definitive until they have been approved by the IEEE. There will likely be important differences between these drafts and the final version, so please, please do not use these documents for production designs.

Action item lists

The current action item (SCAT) list can be found here along with the Page Turner minutes. Old SCAT lists and other organizational files can be found here.

Task groups and email reflectors

There are several task groups and associated email reflectors that you can subscribe to for further information and technical discussions:

Reflector name	Task group	Chair	Document directory
p1394b	for general discussions of the project	David Wooten
upstarts	startup protocols	Colin Whitby-Strevens	Upstarts
bport	port-specific design	Alistair Coles	bport
	includes the arbitration acceleration work	Michael Johas Teener
bphylink	phy-link interface	Sean Killeen	bphylink
copperheads	copper connector issues	Max Bassler	copperheads
butp5	unshielded twisted pair media (probably for S100 speed only)	Colin Whitby-Strevens	butp5
blowpower	very low power applications	Steve Bard	blowpower
pmonger	power management	John Fuller	pmonger
	simulations	Jerry Hauck	simulations
	optical media	Colin Whitby-Strevens	GOFmedia

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Dropbox information

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