Welcome to the IEEE P1394c
(S800T)
Working Group website
Chair and webmaster is Michael D. Johas Teener
Secretary is Les Baxter of Baxter Enterprises
Last updated
Chair and webmaster is Michael D. Johas Teener
Secretary is Les Baxter of Baxter Enterprises
Last updated
This is a full-use standard whose scope is to provide an amendment to IEEE Std 1394-1995TM, IEEE Std 1394a-2000TM and IEEE Std 1394b-2002TM that defines features and mechanisms that provide gigabit speed using catagory 5 cabling over single hop distances of up to 100M. The following are included in this amendment:
Kevin Brown of Broadcom has prepared a short summary of p1394c technology.
The working group does most of its work via email on the 1394 standards reflector. Non-members cannot send to the reflector, you must first send "subscribe stds-1394 your-real-name" to "listserv@listserv.ieee.org" and wait for the challenge/response anti-SPAM process ...
There are no further meetings planned. All technical issues have been resolved and a ballot-ready draft is in preparation.
All following meetings will be ballot review committee work to incorporate comments and suggestions received during balloting.
The P1394c sponsor ballot closed on March 30th, 2006, with the following result:
58 votes received = 81% returned, 5% abstention
There were a total of 58 comments - 16 technical, 6 general and 43 editorial.
The negative votes with comments furnished a total of 9 technical comments that the respective balloters indicated must be satisfied.
The BRC has been appointed and comprises
Given the relatively few comments, and their nature, the BRC has adopted an aggressive schedule for resolving the comments and initiating a recirculation ballot by April 24th, and making a submission to RevCom by the IEEE deadline of April 28th (I understand that under the IEEE rules this is in order, provided that the recirculation ballot has been initiated), thus allowing final approval to be considered at the Standards Board meeting on June 8th.
The first meeting of the BRC is scheduled for Wednesday April 12th.
The last draft before balloting was p1394c draft 0.4 (thank you very much, Colin!). This draft has been renamed as draft 1.0 with minor changes and is up for IEEE ballot.
A zipped archive of the FrameMaker sources of all previous drafts is available here.
Note that all draft standards are password protected. This is IEEE policy. The password is only available to participants in the 1394 standardization process (in effect, this means those that are on the stds-1394 reflector).
The normative description of the protocols used in all 1394 standards is done in c-language files that are embedded within the document. For 1394c, these are available separately as a zip-compressed file. The current version was created on July 5, 2005, and is maintained by Colin Whitby-Strevens .
Documents from the July 26, 2004 meeting held at the Embassy Suites in South San Francisco, CA.
Documents from the June 8, 2004 meeting held at Broadcom in San Jose, CA.
Documents from the April 27, 2004 meeting held at Agere in Allentown, PA.
Documents from the March 23, 2004 meeting held at Apple in Cupertino, CA.
Documents from the February 17, 2004 meeting held at Panasonic in San Jose, CA.
Documents from the January 19, 2004 meeting held at the 1394 TA meeting in Waikoloa, HI
Documents from the December 16, 2003 meeting held at Broadcom in San Jose, CA
Documents from the November 18, 2003 meeting held at Apple in Cupertino, CA
Documents from the October 20, 2003 meeting held at the Embassy Suites in South San Francisco, CA
Documents from the September 23, 2003 meeting held at Broadcom in San Jose, CA
Documents from the August 12, 2003 meeting held at Apple in Cupertino, CA
Documents from the July 8, 2003 meeting held at Oxford Semiconductor in Milton Park, UK
Documents from the June 10, 2003 meeting held at Apple in Cupertino, CA
Documents from the April 22, 2003 meeting held at Broadcom in Irvine, CA
Documents from the March 4, 2003 meeting held at Apple Computer in Cupertino, CA
Documents from the January 2003 meeting held at Apple Computer in Cupertino, CA
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