vxibus.org gone? Who maintains/publishes the VXI-11 specs?

[bateau020]

(disclaimer: if this is considered off topic, please point me to the correct forum section)

Y'all probably know a very prominent standard for communication with test instruments: VXI-11. But the specs for that have lost their official web site it seems.

All relevant sources I can find (IVI https://www.ivifoundation.org/, LXI https://lxistandard.org/) point to VXIbus Consortium https://www.vxibus.org as the bearer of the VXI-11 specification documents. But now that website seems to have disappeared.

I know we have the waybackmachine, and yes, I have the latest docs from there, but my question is: what happened?

I can't imagine that VXI-11 is considered totally obsolete already. Even some recent test instruments from big brands do not support HiSLIP (yet?). What organisation took over? I know about the VXIplug&play Systems Alliance that merged into the IVI foundation, but I can't find any VXI-11 specs there.

[coromonadalix]

the 2st links do open, the 3rd  not    not on wayback machine ?

are you behind a vpn,  many websites will block ... they know you're behind a vpn  loll

[bateau020]

no, tested several VPNs and access providers, with and without VPN. Nothing.

[coromonadalix]

 

[bte]

no, tested several VPNs and access providers, with and without VPN. Nothing.

The third link opens with http: but returns a blank page (the source code shows some elements but nothing is visible). An ICANN lookup returns bits of info that suggests the domain is parked (for example, the name server is ns1.bluehost-default.domainparkingserver.net) and last update on the record is May 5, 2026.

[black13]

We ran into the same wall. Found the VXI-11 spec package (vxi-11.pdf + vxi-11.1/2/3) still alive on the Wayback Machine — December 2020 snapshot still has the full 276KB zip:

web.archive.org/web/20201201000000/https://www.vxibus.org/files/VXI_Specs/VXI-11.zip

Also ended up building a working VXI-11 instrument simulator from the EPICS/Tektronix rpcgen stubs — pure C, runs on macOS/Linux, speaks to NI-VISA out of the box. Full SCPI dispatch with Duktape scripting for simulation scenarios.

Repo: github.com/black13/cmake-cpp-vxi11-scpi-simulator

Figured since the specs are orphaned, a clean open-source reference implementation might help others too.

[bateau020]

yeah. Got the files from waybackbmachine also (and they matched the copy I had from earlier), it's just a shame that several documents with later revisions are mentioned in some places, and I can't find them.

Small remark about your code: you may want to force the types that are in the structs in vxi11core.h (int, u_int, u_bool, u_char, etc) to all 32 bit, and pack them. Am doing roughly the same as you do, but in zephyr.