1394 Trade Association

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Read the "Isoc", our online TA newsletter with information about our recent General meeting. Issues for October '95 and November '95 are available.

The 1394 Trade Association was formed in September 1994 to accelerate the market adoption of IEEE 1394. Of special importance are the technical working groups that focus on refining the IEEE 1394 specification. Several items of interest are available:

The 1394 TA membership list.
Information on joining the TA .
The 1394 TA bylaws.
A list of reflectors used by TA members.
A list of useful documents available on the net.

The IEEE 1394-1995 specification can be ordered from the IEEE at +1-800-678-IEEE within the USA or +1-908-981-1393 from outside the USA.

The next general meeting will be hosted by Apple Computer and will be held in Cupertino, California, on 23-25 July 1996.

The previous few general meetings of the TA were:

Tokyo, Japan on April 10-12, 1996, hosted by Sony. Working group reports from this meeting include:
- A technical introduction including:
  - A summary of 1394 by Michael Teener
  - A software paper by Peter Johansson
- 4/11/96 A/V working group
- 4/11/96 Architecture working group including a bridging presentation by Peter Johansson.
Dallas, Texas on January 16 to 18, 1996, hosted by Texas Instruments. Working group reports from this meeting include:
- 1/16/96 Architecture working group.
- 1/17/96 Marketing working group.
In addition, the IEEE study group for 1394 follow-ons held a meeting on 1/15/96, and preliminary minutes are available.
Cupertino, California on October 16-18, 1995, hosted by Apple.
Redmond, Washington, on July 18 to 20, 1995, hosted by Microsoft.
- 7/19/95 Architecture working group meeting. Which had, among other things, a presentation of the Sun Microsystems gigabit physical layer and a later submission of the Bull gigabit physical layer. Working group reports from this meeting include:
- 7/18/95 Steering Committee meeting.
- 7/20/95 Storage working group meeting.
- 7/20/95 Marketing working group meeting.
Several working groups have produced reports after the July 1995 general meeting.
- 8/14/95 Architecture working group meeting at Sony in San Jose, CA.
- 8/15/95 Marketing working group meeting at Adaptec in Milpitas, CA.
Austin, Texas on April 7 to 9, 1995, hosted by Skipstone. One report is available.

For more information on the 1394 Trade Association, please call Toni Tappan at +1-512-305-0203, fax +1-512-305-0212, or one of the officers of the TA:

Chair: Gary Hoffman, Skipstone, +1-512-305-0200
Vice chair: Ken Mano, Sony Corporation of America, +1-408-955-5024
Financial : Max Bassler, Molex, Inc., +1-708-9 69-4747
Secretary: James Snider, Texas Instruments, +1-214-480-3401
Editor: David Troup, AMD, +1-512-602-5425

To request an update to the 1394 TA Web pages, please send a note to Michael Teener at Apple Computer, +1-408-974-3521.

To post minutes of a TA meeting or other items of interest to TA members, send a file encoded as HTML, Adobe Acrobat, or plain ASCII containing the committee's name and your name, meetings location and date, and directions of where you want the posting to appear in the Web page to Michael Teener.

Many of the files kept by the TA are in Acrobat format. You can get Acrobat by clicking this:

There are several other 1394-related web pages:

Thanks to Skipstone, Inc. for providing WEB server support and access.

Author: Michael Teener
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 15, 1996 (mdt)