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The IEEE-SA NEWS FOR APRIL 2008 reported on activity to revise IEEE 1244 and IEEE 1667 (see below).
One of the 1667 participants contacted me to ask about the web site, email reflector, etc for 1244 (SSSWG, or Storage System Standards Working Group).
Curtis Anderson is the chair of the Storage System Standards Committee sponsoring the projects and I am the working group chair as I was in 2000 when the five standards were originally approved. We are in the process of selecting a date and location for the kickoff meeting. Curtis has been coordinating tat so far. The SSSWG web site is ancient, and will be moved, it still being hosted on a server run by the estate of one of SSSWG's members. But you can look at the old site at http://ssswg.org. The email reflector is ssswg@computer.org, and just tell me in email if you want to subscribe (Curtis: send me the names of the others you have contact with).
The 1244 series was originally intended to be ten standards, but we only got 5 done. When we revise these we might need to abandon the "MMS" acronym because of trademark dispute. OTOH the dispute is so old it might have been abandoned. Need to check. Just after the five 1244 standards were administratively withdrawn we learned of five implementations, so we asked for and received project approvals from IEEE to revise all five.
As soon as we find out who intends to participate in the kickoff meeting we will schedule this spring at a location that minimizes travel for the group. And we will announce this on the new web site and the email reflector.
Jack
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IEEE TO UPDATE SIX COMPUTER STORAGE AND SECURITY STANDARDS
IEEE has begun projects to update six standards dealing with computer data storage security, including a suite of standards dealing with Media Management Systems:
- IEEE P1244.1(TM), "Standard for Media Management System (MMS) Architecture," will update the standard originally published in the year 2000
- IEEE P1244.2(TM), "Standard for Media Management System (MMS) Session Security, Authentication, Initialization Protocol (SSAIP)
- IEEE P1244.3(TM), "Standard for Media Management System (MMS) Media Management Protocol (MMP)
- IEEE P1244.4(TM), "Standard for Media Management System (MMS) Drive Management Protocol (DMP)
- IEEE P1244.5(TM), "Standard for Media Management System (MMS) Library Management Protocol (LMP)
- IEEE P1667(TM), "Standard Protocol for Authentication in Host Attachments of Transient Storage Devices.
For more information, please visit: http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/PR_Storage_and_SecurityStandards.html