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From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
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Subject: Re: High Speed Protocols
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Date: 10 Mar 91 16:16:21 GMT
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In article <13101@helios.TAMU.EDU> bajpai@ee.tamu.edu (Dhruv Bajpai) writes:
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|    Does anybody have any information about organizations involved in 
|    development of 'High Speed Protocols'. I Know about IBM project(PSi)
|    and Silicon Graphics(XTP). 
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Minor clarification: Although the "XTP Protocol Definition" document is not
copyrighted, and the XTP protocol may be used by anybody for anything...

	"Xpress Transfer Protocol, XTP, and Protocol Engine are registered
	trademarks of Protocol Engines, Incorporated, and must be so noted
	whenever referenced in a document." [From the XTP spec.]

And while it is true that XTP began at SGI, and many other groups outside
either PEI or SGI (e.g., XTP TAB members) have made and continue to make
significant contributions to XTP, PEI is currently the repository for what
is considered "the XTP spec". [I say "currently", because protocols, if
successful, have a habit of eventually becoming "standards"...]


-Rob

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