This is an announcement for the paper "Banach SSD spaces and classes of monotone sets" by Stephen Simons. Abstract: In this paper, we unify the theory of SSD spaces and the theory of strongly representable sets, and we apply our results to the theory of the various classes of maximally monotone sets. We obtain some new results about these, as well as some new proofs of old ones. Archive classification: math.FA Mathematics Subject Classification: 47H05, 47N10, 46N10 The source file(s), SSDMONarxiv.tex: 116002 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0908.0383.gz with size 29kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 133kb. Submitted from: simons@math.ucsb.edu The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/0908.0383 or http://arXiv.org/abs/0908.0383 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0908.0383 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0908.0383 to: math@arXiv.org.