May 9, 1991

    Hello,

    Thank you for requesting information about the Rock Ridge Group CD-ROM
    proposals.  The Rock Ridge Group recently submitted the draft versions
    of its System Use Sharing Protocol (SUSP) and Rock Ridge Interchange
    Protocol (RRIP) to the US National Institute of Standards and Technology
    (NIST).  These proposals extend and are completely compliant with the
    current international standard format for CD-ROM, ISO 9660-1988.  NIST
    has announced its intention to write a US Federal Information Processing
    Standard which will cover ISO 9660-1988 and the Rock Ridge extensions.

    The following companies have expressed support for the proposed
    specifications:  Anvil Software Limited, Digital Equipment Corporation,
    Fulcrum Technologies Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Highland Software,
    Interactive Systems Corporation, Lehman Brothers, Mentor Graphics
    Corporation, Meridian Data, Next Technology Corporation (UK), Philips
    Kommunikations Industrie, The Santa Cruz Operation, Silicon Graphics
    Computer Systems, Solbourne Computer, Sun Microsystems and Young Minds.

    We solicit and welcome your technical feedback on the specifications.

    The specifications are not yet frozen, there is still time to comment on
    the documents.  All technical comments MUST be received by April 30,
    1991 to be considered.  The final version of the Rock Ridge
    specifications are scheduled to be available in June, 1991.

    Send your comments and queries on the specifications via e-mail, fax or
    post.

    e-mail (preferred):     rrreview@dgdo.eng.sun.com

    fax:        To the attention of Cheri Fuqua, fax 415 962 0148

    Post:       Cheri Fuqua
        Sun Microsystems MS MTV17-08
        2550 Garcia Avenue
        Mountain View, CA, 94043 USA

    Your message will be immediately acknowledged and then passed on to the
    technical committee for later response.

    Please include the following in your message:

    a) Is your message a QUERY or a COMMENT? (A query requests clarification,
       a comment suggests a change.)

    b) Your name, company, postal address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail
       address. Please do NOT depend upon e-mail generated return addresses,
       include complete contact information in your message.

    The next general meeting of the Rock Ridge group will be on June 7,
    1991.  The meeting is planned to include general talks about the
    specifications in the morning followed by detailed technical discussion
    in the afternoon.  All are welcome.  If you wish to attend, please
    contact Larry Kluger, e-mail lkluger@eng.sun.com, fax 415 336 6015.
    Please include complete contact information.

    To receive a copy of the current version of the specifications, please
    contact Bob Niland, e-mail rjn@fc.hp.com, fax 303 229 4545.  The
    documents are available in ASCII plaintext, troff, non-encapsulated
    PostScript and typeset HP-PCL-3 (for "raw" printing on a LaserJet+ or
    compatible).  They are not presently available via ftp.

    Thank you,

    The Rock Ridge Group