30-day Public Review for Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.0

[Paul Knight]

Season's greetings all:

The OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC [1] members have recently approved
a Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for
30-day(*) public review:

Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
03 December 2013

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 first public review draft, after months of hard work by the
VIRTIO Technical Committee.

TC Description:

The goal of the OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC is to simplify virtual
devices, making them more extensible and more recognizable.

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

Public Review Period:

(*) The TC has requested an extended Public Review period due to the
holiday season.

The public review starts 00:00 GMT 25 December 2013 and ends 23:59 GMT 31
January 2014.

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.

URIs:

The prose specification document and related files are available here:

PDF (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd01/virtio-v1.0-csprd01.pdf

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd01/virtio-v1.0-csprd01.html

Editable TeX Source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/csprd01/tex/

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/csprd01/virtio-v1.0-csprd01.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Virtual I/O
Device (VIRTIO) TC can be found at the TC's public home page:

https://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 located via the button labeled "Send
A Comment" at the top of the TC public home, or directly at:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=virtio

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

https://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 [2] applicable especially [3] 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) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/virtio/

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/virtio/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.3
Non-Assertion IPR Mode

Best regards,
Paul
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