ANSI INCITS 337 : 2000

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions and conventions
   3.1 Definitions
   3.2 Editorial conventions
   3.3 Acronyms and other abbreviations
4 System overview
   4.1 Control Channels, Control operations, Data Channels,
         and Data operations
   4.2 Virtual Connections
   4.3 Data hierarchy
   4.4 Scheduled Transfers
   4.5 Persistent memory region
   4.6 Destination side data structure model
   4.7 Implementing subsets of ST capabilities
5 Connection management
   5.1 Connection management sequences
   5.2 Connection management parameters
6 Data movement
   6.1 Data movement sequences
   6.2 Data movement parameters
   6.3 Tiling examples
7 Operations management
   7.1 Flow control
   7.2 Status operations
   7.3 Rejected operations
   7.4 Interrupts
8 Schedule Header
   8.1 Op codes
   8.2 Flags
   8.3 Checksum (optional)
9 Operations sequence tables
10 Error processing
   10.1 Operation timeout
   10.2 Operation pairs
   10.3 Data transmission timeouts
   10.4 Keep-alive sequences (optional)
   10.5 Duplicated operations
   10.6 Checksum errors
   10.7 LLP error
   10.8 Syntax errors
   10.9 Virtual Connection errors
   10.10 Scheduled Transfer errors
Tables
Figures
Annexes
A Using lower layer protocols
   A.1 HIPPI-6400-PH as the LLP
   A.2 HIPPI-FP as the LLP
   A.3 Ethernet as the LLP
   A.4 ATM LAN Emulation as the LLP
B Option payload format
   B.1 Option formats
   B.2 Option-codes
C ST striping
   C.1 Striping principles
   C.2 Many-to-one striping
   C.3 One-to-many striping
   C.4 Many-to-many striping
D Implementation comments
   D.1 Parameters expressed as 2n
   D.2 Using Max_STU and Bufsize to determine the
         maximum STU size
   D.3 Using Max_Block, Blocksize, and pacing Clear_To_Send
         operations
   D.4 Implementing Bufx lookups
   D.5 Transfer example
   D.6 FetchOp buffer management
   D.7 V-BlkSize and V-ByteSeq comments
   D.8 Put Block window comments
   D.9 Aliased operations
E State tables
   E.1 Introduction
   E.2 General implementation issues
   E.3 Connection management FSM
   E.4 Write sequence FSMs
   E.5 Read sequence FSMs
   E.6 Persistent memory region FSMs
   E.7 Put, Get, and FetchOp examples

Describes a connection-oriented data transfer protocol supporting flow-controlled Read and Write sequences and non-flow-controlled, persistent-memory Put, Get and FetchOp sequences.