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To: Neil S who wrote (21302)	4/6/1999 12:51:00 PM
From: Patrick Sharkey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Things change quickly; as of March 9, 1999 Brocade was not listed as a member of the SNIA, according to the SNIA web site.

To: Neil S who wrote (21302)	4/6/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: Louie Liu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

SAN Alliances I sent an email to Ken of EMC. My Message: "Ken, Having read the press release about various storage industry leaders joining their effort in establishing a common storage standard, does that mean more companies have accepted the work done by the Fibre-Alliance led by EMC? To what extent the new "open storage network standard" mirrors the MIB proposal from EMC Corp.?" I received the following reply: " Louie, EMC views the work of SNIA and the FibreAlliance as complementary initiatives. We support any industry initiative that rapidly broadens the customer benefits of storage networks, as the standards initiative announced yesterday clearly promises to do. Similarly, the 12-company FibreAlliance, of which HP, Legato and Veritas are also members, shares the goal of rapidly bringing standards to the emerging storage networking market. As EMC Vice President Don Swatik said during yesterday's con call with the press, we continue to press forward toward this goal on both the FibreAlliance and SNIA fronts. In fact, as Don said, the FibreAlliance recently submitted to the IETF standards body the first-ever engineering specification for a Fibre Channel-based MIB. This milestone was achieved just two months after we announced the formation of the FibreAlliance, proving that rapid cooperative engineering development certainly is possible under the right circumstances. Now, as a key element of n the hands of the IETF, the FibreAlliance-created MIB spec is open to review and comment by any company. We welcome the renewed attention by SNIA members to the development of standards, which yesterday's announcement affirmed. The FibreAlliance already has demonstrated that crucial elements of standards work can be fast-tracked. If this success serves to codify the resolve of other industry alliances to press for faster, more cooperative standards work, all the better. Ultimately, of course, our customers will be the beneficiaries of these initiatives. Concerning your second question, the areas of new SNIA work described yesterday are yet to be fully determined. Clearly, many areas of SAN interoperability require the development of new standards. The one near-term objective is creation of a standard to share nodes on a SAN. As part of the IETF process, SNIA companies can comment on the MIB as a way of improving on the work of the FibreAlliance. Hope this helps. Ken"