ANSI/INCITS 428-2007

A standard Application Programming Interface defines a scope within which and a grammar by which it ispossible to write application software without attention to vendor-specific infrastructure behavior. Thisstandard defines a standard Application Programming Interface the scope of which is management ofFibre Channel and Serial Attached SCSI Host Bus Adapters and use of specific Fibre Channel and SerialAttached SCSI facilities for the discovery and management of the components of Fibre Channel StorageArea Network and Serial Attached SCSI domain.