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ZAC-3 Obsolete the Streaming feature set

ACS-7 Obsolete the Streaming Feature Set

A small update is needed in the Zone Condition state machine figure to reflect the immutability of INACTIVE zones.

Add a WRITE GATHERED EXT SUPPORTED bit to the SATA NCQ Send and Receive log (Log Address 13h)

Add a WRITE GATHERED EXT SUPPORTED bit to the SATA NCQ Send and Receive log (Log Address 13h)

The ISO DIS ballot on ZAC-2 has surfaced a request to remove gratuitous capitalization of certain definitions of acronyms. This has been done in ZAC-3, but ACS-7 has similar problems. This proposal attempts to address preemptively the ISO DIS ballot comment for ACS-7.

Define a helpful (i.e., verbose) Security Protocol ID for the DMTF SPDM group's SATA/SCSI work products.

T13 Liaison Report to T10

Under "interesting" circumstances, the GET PHYSICAL ELEMENT STATUS command can helpfully guide the host towards an end result that leaves some zoned READ ONLY instead of OFFLINE.

List of proposals and statuses for ACS-7

Add some value to the OCP abbreviation introduced in g25121

List of proposals and statuses for ACS-7

Informal Liaison Report of public information

August 2025 T13 Plenary #174 Announcement

Trying to remove the confusion over prohibition of Accessible Max Address Configuration feature set and successful SET ACCESSBILE MAX command completion.

IEEE Security in Storage Working Group Report to INCITS ATA Interfaces Committee (T13)

Agenda for T13 plenary #173 - June 2025 - Longmont CO

Summary of project information obtained from INCITS and related TC decisions

Corrects a typo in the definition of the bit.

Trying to remove the confusion over prohibition of Accessible Max Address Configuration feature set and successful SET ACCESSBILE MAX command completion.

The ISO DIS ballot on ZAC-2 has surfaced a request to remove gratuitous capitalization of certain definitions of acronyms. This has been done in ZAC-3, but ACS-7 has similar problems. This proposal attempts to address preemptively the ISO DIS ballot comment for ACS-7.

Under "interesting" circumstances, the preferred device processing for a REMOVE ELEMENT AND MODIFY ZONES commands might be to make a write pointer zone READ ONLY instead of OFFLINE.

ZAC-3 Issues List

Define a helpful (i.e., verbose) Security Protocol ID for the DMTF SPDM group's SATA/SCSI work products.

The current cross reference for the SCSA security protocol code value needs some modernization.