T10 (standardization committee)
T10 is a standardization body for SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) and thus also SAS standards. The body is a so-called technical committee of the International Committee on Information Technology Standards ( INCITS - pronounced "insights"). INCITS operates under the rules and approval of ANSI and is represented by this organization vis-à-vis JTC-1 , ISO and IEC . ANSI also publishes the INCITS standards.
The committee (T10) publishes regularly updated standards that can then be implemented by the manufacturers and software developers. Until 2008, the draft standards were freely accessible to everyone on the T10 website; this has not been the case since January 2009.
Specifically, the SCSI protocol defines how the various SCSI commands have to look and how the SCSI device has to communicate with the system (both hardware and software).
T10 is responsible for the SCSI architecture standards (SAM, SAM-2, SAM-3 and SAM-4). These are not only used for classic SCSI, but are also used, for example, with SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), Fiber Channel , SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) and FireWire (IEEE 1394).
T10 is also responsible for many SCSI command set standards (e.g. ADT , ADC , FCP -2, FCP-3 , SPC-4, SBC-3, SSC-3, MMC-6 for DVD drives and the like, SMC-3, OSD-2, RBC, etc.). These command sets are used by almost all modern input / output interfaces - including SCSI, SAS, Fiber Channel, SSA, IEEE 1394, USB and also ATAPI (ATA) and S-ATA .
The T10 is also responsible for many other related standards such as the SCSI / ATA translation SAT .