T11 Device Level Interfaces

The T11 committee develops interfaces for device communications and has a website at http://www.t11.org/. It turns out that most of the interfaces developed by T11 are storage-related, and this is where standards specific to FC technology can be viewed.

T11 Standards

Some of the standards in T11 are completed and are not undergoing further development, while others are continuing to be developed. The two areas currently under development in T11 are FC and Storage (Network) Management. The URLs for these subcommittees are as follows:

• Fibre Channel

  http://www.t11.org/t11/stat.nsf/fcproj

• Storage (Network) Management

  http://www.t11.org/t11/stat.nsf/smproj

Finished standards are mostly interesting for historical reasons. Readers wanting to look at older storage interface standards can visit the websites of the following T11 subcommittees:

• High-Performance Parallel Interface

  http://www.t11.org/t11/stat.nsf/hippiproj

• Intelligent Peripheral Interface

  http://www.t11.org/t11/stat.nsf/ipiproj

• Single-Byte Command Code Sets Connection

  http://www.t11.org/t11/stat.nsf/sbproj

Fibre Channel Subcommittees and Working Groups

The following list indicates areas of development in FC with downloadable documents from the T11 FC website:

• FC-AE Fibre Channel Avionics Environment

• FC-AL Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop

• FC-AV Fibre Channel Audiovisual

• FC-BB Fibre Channel Backbone

• FC-DA Fibre Channel Device Attach

• FC-FG Fabric Generic Requirements

• FC-FLA Fabric Loop Attachment

• FC-FP Fibre Channel Mapping to HIPPI-FP

• FC-FS Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling Interface

• FC-GS Fibre Channel Generic Services

• FC-HBA Fibre Channel HBA API

• FC-HSPI Fibre Channel High-Speed Parallel Interface

• FC-LE Fibre Channel Link Encapsulation

• FC-LS Fibre Channel Link Services

• FC-MI Fibre Channel Methodologies for Interconnects

• FC-MJS Fibre Channel Methodology of Jitter Specification

• FC-MJSQ Fibre Channel Methodologies for Jitter and Signal Quality Specification

• FC-PH Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface

• FC-PI Fibre Channel Physical Interface

• FC-PLDA Fibre Channel Private Loop Direct Attach

• FC-SB Fibre Channel Single Byte Command Code Sets

• FC-SM Fibre Channel Signal Modeling

• FC-SP Fibre Channel Security Protocols

• FC-SW Fibre Channel Switch Fabric and Switch Control Requirements

• FC-SWAPI Fibre Channel Switch Application Programming Interface

• FC-TAPE Tape Technical Report

• FC-VI Fibre Channel Virtual Interface Architecture Mapping

• MIB-FA Fibre Channel Management Information Base

• SM-LL-V Fibre Channel Very Long Length Optical Interface

Storage (Network) Management Subcommittees and Working Groups

The following list shows areas of work in the T11 Storage Network Management subcommittee:

• FAIS Fabric Application Interface Standard

• SM-AMD SAN Management Attribute and Method Dictionary

• SM-HBA Host Bus Adapter Application Programming Interface

• SM-MM SAN Management Management Model

• SM-NSM Storage Management Name Server MIB

• SM-RTM Storage Management Routing Information MIB