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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:54:16 -0400
From: Chet Ensign <chet.ensign at oasis-open.org>
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Subject: [members] 15-day Public Review for Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) V1.0 -
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The OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC members [1] have produced an updated
Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for 15-day
public review:

Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 02 / Public Review Draft 02
11 March 2014

With the release we are testing a convenience option for submitting comments to
the Technical Committee. Please see the details under ?Public Review Period?
below.

Specification Overview:

This document describes the specifications of the "virtio" family of
devices.
These devices are found in virtual environments, yet by design they are not all
that different from physical devices, and this document treats them as such.
This allows the guest to use standard drivers and discovery mechanisms.

The purpose of virtio and this specification is that virtual environments and
guests should have a straightforward, efficient, standard and extensible
mechanism for virtual devices, rather than boutique per-environment or per-OS
mechanisms.

This is the second public review draft, incorporating significant feedback on
clarity from the first draft.

TC Description: 

The TC has spent the past two months processing all the feedback for
incorporation into the document. We believe the result is a clearer, crisper
draft and welcome further feedback. There are only a small number of changes to
the intent of the spec, and these are highlighted at the top of the changelog. 

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 31 March 2014 at 00:00 GMT and ends 14 April 2014 at
23:59 GMT. The specification was previously submitted for public review [2].
Due to the extensive number of changes, the complete Committee Specification
Draft is open for review. 

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential
users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of
improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

With this public review, we are testing a new convenience feature for sending
comments to the Technical Committee. The file

http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd02/
virtio-v1.0-csprd02-COMMENT-TAGS.html

contains the HTML version of the draft with a ?[comment?]? link next to each
section heading. Clicking on this link will launch your email application and
begin a message to virtio-comment at lists.oasis-open.org with the specific
section number and title in the subject line. (For example, ?Public review
comment for virtio-v1.0-csprd02: 1.3 Terminology.?) Simply enter your comment
and click send.

You must be subscribed to the virtio-comment at lists.oasis-open.org mailing
list
in order to send your comments. Instructions on how to subscribe can be found
at https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=virtio.

Note that the Table of Contents doesn?t work in this version and other internal
document links may not work in this file. That is one of the items we need fix
before making this capability more broadly available. Please feel free to let
us know if you find this feature helpful. We plan to refine it and make it a
part of our normal public review process.

URIs:
The prose specification document and related files are available here:

Editable source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd02/tex/ 

HTML: 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd02/virtio-v1.0-csprd02.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd02/virtio-v1.0-csprd02.pdf

ZIP distribution files (complete):

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose
specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download
the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd02/virtio-v1.0-csprd02.zip

Additional information about this specification and the VIRTIO TC may be found
on the TC's public home page located at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/virtio/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS
TC Comment Facility which can be accessed via the button labeled "Send A
Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=virtio

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this
TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public
review of 'Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.0', we call your
attention to
the OASIS IPR Policy [3] applicable especially [4] to the work of this
technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this
document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and
availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights
that
read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons who know of
any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the
implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted
to the notice page for this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Technical Committee
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/virtio/

[2] Previous public reviews: 
30-day public review, 24 December 2014: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/
members/201312/msg00013.html
- Comment resolution log: http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd01
/virtio-v1.0-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.xlsx 

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/virtio/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#licensing_req
Non-Assertion Mode 

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