Security in Storage Management: The Standards Question

The IEEE Computer Society announced the approval of the world¿s first Storage System Standards were approved on June 21st, 2000 [1], for the IEEE Media Management System (MMS) describing its architecture, data model, core media management protocol, and drive management and library management protocols. Four standards were approved, 1244.1 [2], 1244.3 [3], 1244.4 [4], and 1244.5 [5]. Notable by its absence in this announcement was the standard IEEE 1244.2, the "Session Security, Authentication, Initialization Protocol" (SSAIP) [6].