Storage Systems - Collaboration - Standards

Our researchers actively participate in storage related standards activities.

Aperi Storage Management Project
• IBM Almaden Contributors: Ramani Routray, Prasenjit Sarkar


IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee
• IBM Almaden Contributor: Mike Ko


InfiniBand Trade Association
• InfiniBand Architecture Specification -- Annex A11: RDMA IP CM Service
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Mike Ko
• InfiniBand Architecture Specification -- Annex A12: Support for iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER)
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Mike Ko


Internet Engineering Task Force - IETF
• RFC3720: Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI)
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Jim Hafner, Prasenjit Sarkar
• RFC3721: iSCSI Naming and Discovery Standard
  • IBM Almaden Contributors: Jim Hafner, Kaladhar Voruganti
• RFC3722: String Profile for Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) Names
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Jim Hafner
• RFC4018: Finding iSCSI Targets and NameServers using SLP
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Kaladhar Voruganti
• RFC4173: iSCSI Boot Standard
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Prasenjit Sarkar
• RFC5040: A Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol Specification
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Mike Ko
• RFC5044: Marker PDU Aligned Framing for TCP Specification
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Mike Ko
• RFC5046: iSCSI Extensions for RDMA
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Mike Ko
• RFC5047: Datamover Architecture
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Mike Ko
• RFC5048: iSCSI Corrections and Clarifications
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Mike Ko
• NFSv4.1 (pNFS)
  • IBM Almaden Contributors: Marc Eshel, Manoj Naik


RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) Consortium
• iSER Specification Version 1.0
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Mike Ko
• Sockets Direct Protocol for iWARP over TCP
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Mike Ko
• RDMA Protocol Verbs Specification
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Mike Ko


Storage Networking Industry Association - SNIA
• eXtensible Access Method (XAM) Standard
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Wayne Hineman


T10 - SCSI Storage Interfaces
• SCSI Access Control Standard
  • IBM Almaden Contributor: Jim Hafner
• SCSI Object Storage Device (OSD) Standard
  • IBM Almaden Contributors: Richard Golding, Jim Hafner, Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote, Miriam Sivan-Zimet