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<div><font color="#44546A">Wow, how time flies. it’s been a while for me but wanted to pass along my thanks to both Kwok and Alex – in this thing from day 1 and always just rock solid! Congrats too to Ray and Carolyn, I know you guys will carry on the quality
traditions set forth for your predecessors… all of them <font face="Wingdings">J</font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#44546A">-Paul</font></div>
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<b>From:</b> Kwok Kong [<a href="mailto:Kwok.Kong@pmcs.com">mailto:Kwok.Kong@pmcs.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 12, 2015 4:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [nvmewin] OFA NVMe Windows Driver 2015 planning<br>
<b>When:</b> Friday, January 23, 2015 1:00 PM-2:00 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada).<br>
<b>Where:</b> Live Meeting</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">All,</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">It has been another successful year for the working group. We made the 1.4 release in Dec 2014 as a result of an excellent collaboration between the NVMe communities. </span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The following major features have been added to this release:</span></font></div>
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<li>Pass Windows Hardware Certification Kit (HCK) and WHQL</li><li>Hot plug / swap support</li><li>Migrate to VS 2013/WDK 8.1</li><li>WPP Tracing / WMI processing support</li><li>Format NVM enhancement</li><li>Bus reset enhancement</li><li>Several bug fixes </li></span></font>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">It is time for us to start the planning for 2016. </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Intel has agreed to chair the working group to further develop the driver starting 2016. Raymond Robles is going to take over from me to chair the working group. Carolyn Foster is going to take
over from Alex Chang to be the source maintainer. I would like to get a confirmation from the WG members to approve the new chairperson and the source maintainer during this call.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Please be prepared to discuss your proposal on the new features that you would like to see in the 2015 release of the driver.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Agenda:</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">- Review 1.4 release (Kwok)</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">- Confirmation of Ray and Carolyn as the chairperson and source maintainer (All)</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">- Planning for 2016 and beyond (Ray)</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">- AOB</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Thanks</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-Kwok Kong</span></font></div>
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