Title: CESG Report
1 SLS AREA REPORT November 2004
2SLS AREA REPORT
CONTENTS
- CURRENTLY ACTIVE WGs AND BOFs WITHIN AREA
- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS OF EACH WG BOF
- CROSS-AREA TECHNICAL ISSUES
- OTHER ISSUE AND CONCERNS
- PROPOSED AREA RESOLUTIONS/ACTION ITEMS
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- LIST OF CURRENT WGs AND BOFs WITHIN AREA
- SLS-RFM - RF Modulation WG
- SLS-CS Coding Synchronisation WG
- SLS-DC Data Compression WG
- SLS-SLP Space Link Protocols WG
- SLS-TCC Telecommand Channel Coding WG
- SLS-RNG Ranging WG
- SLS-Prox-1 Build-2 WG
- SLS-LEC - Long Erasure Codes BOF
- SLS-LDPC - New Codes BOF
-
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- SLS-RFM WG
- Goal align 401.0-B with WRC-03, SFCG-23 and
SFCG-24 - Working Group Status Active
- Working Group Summary Situation
- Working Group Summary progress
- 13 revised recs 2 editorial recs generated in
October - Agency review on 24 recommendations completed 1st
Dec - Agreed way forward to resolve deadlock on
recommendation 2.4.18 found. White 2.4.18 drafted
in accordance with SFCG 14-3R6 to remain white
until after SFCG-25 meeting in October 2005
status OK CAUTION PROBLEM
comment Good progress
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- SLS-RFM WG
- Working Group Summary progress
- small number of revised recommendations expected
in Spring 2005, following on-going simulation
results and joint RFM-CS WGs meeting. - Problems and Issues
- Requirement to await SFCG-25 completion before
finalizing white 2.4.18 to avoid same problems of
current 2.4.18 ? need to delay WG termination
date from August 2005 to end of November 2005. - Green Book containing Earth station
characteristics (411.0-G-3) dated May 1997 does
not reflect current capabilities and may mislead
users. Updating it is a difficult and
time-consuming job requiring a senior person with
intimate technical knowledge of Earth station
equipment design. NASA/JPL maintained it in the
past.
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- SLS-CS Coding Synchronization WG (1)
- Goal - Issue TM Channel Coding GB - Review
and issue an Orange Book on NASA experience with
Low Density Parity Check Codes ASIC
Development. - Working Group Status Active
- Working Group Summary Situation
- Working Group Summary progress
- Draft Book delivered by NASA/GSFC.
status OK CAUTION PROBLEM
comment Scope of the Orange Book undefined
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- SLS-CS Coding Synchronization WG (2)
- Problems and Issues
- Telemetry Channel Coding Green Book could not be
published for reasons of formating problems (see
D. Other Issues Concerns, Issue 1) - Scope of the Orange Book
- WG mainly discussed the Orange Book as per MoMs
held at University of Maryland. - WG is awaiting NASAs reply to CMC-S04-A25 to
proceed (or not) with the Orange Book .
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- 3. Data compression WG
- Goal
- Specify an image compression algorithm fulfilling
identified space mission requirements - Develop a subsequent recommendation together with
the supporting information (performances, usage,
reference software, etc ). - Working Group Status Active
- Working Group Summary Situation
status OK CAUTION PROBLEM
comment Red-1 under review, green book work in progress
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- Data compression WG (cntd)
- Working Group Summary progress
- Red book issue 1 has been finalized all
pending algorithmic details have been decided
upon - Red-1 under review till dec. 1st, first RIDs
received were disposed of at this meeting - Green book is being assembled editing
leadership has been splitted among WG members
target BB GB available at the same date (cf.
planning) - Cross verification of recommendation being done
through 4 independent SW implementations 1 HW
implementation - One of these will be chosen as reference
software, needed for - - compliance testing, performance evaluation.
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- Data compression WG (cntd)
- Problems and Issues
- WG decides to strictly separate compression and
data transport issues. Synchronization markers
will not be provided by the compression rec.
for bitstream oriented services, it will be up to
the users to insert synchronization marker
aligned with each compressed segment. - reference software should be part of the final
recommendation, therefore it is desirable that it
is available from the CCSDS website together with
the BB, as an open source software with
appropriate S/W license.
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- Data compression WG (cntd)
- Revised planning
- Complete GREEN BOOK draft March, 2005
- Complete S/W cross-verification March, 2005
- Dispose RED BOOK-1 RIDS, Apr, 2005
- Issue RED BOOK-2, July, 2005
- Release reference S/W, October, 2005
- Issue GREEN BOOK, October, 2005
- Issue BLUE BOOK, October, 2005
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- 4. SLS-SLP WG
- Goal - Adapt, Adopt, and Create link layer
Protocols for space data systems - Develop
Link Layer Green Books for CCSDS Link Layer
Protocols - Working Group Status Active
- Working Group Summary Situation
- Working Group Summary progress
- Produced Pink Sheet to Space Link Identifiers
Blue Book to add Prox-1 Port ID Values - Reviewing the Draft Proximity-1 Space Link
Protocol GB. - Recommend that the Secretariat publish the Space
Link Protocols GB and the Space Data Link
Protocol GB
status OK CAUTION PROBLEM
comment Work in progress
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- 4. SLS-SLP WG
- Problems and Issues
- Pink sheets for AOS Link Layer Protocol (increase
in AOS frame sequence count) approved for release
by CMC (Spring04) but still not published for
agency review. - RED-2 Version of Encapsulation Packet Service
approved by CESG (Spring04) but no CMC decision.
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- SLS-TCC Telecommand Channel Coding WG
- Goal Development of a Telecommand Channel Coding
Green Book. - Working Group Status Active
- Working Group Summary Situation
- Working Group Summary progress
- First Draft Book delivered by ESA Editor for
commenting within the WG.
status OK CAUTION PROBLEM
comment WG restarted with ESA resources NASA contribution.
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- RNG WG
- Goal issue blue book on novel ranging techniques
- Working Group Status Active
- Working Group Summary Situation
- Working Group Summary progress
- Agency review on delta-DOR recommendation
completed - Independent theoretical analysis and simulation
results on most regenerative PN ranging specs
available from two Agencies - Four (one) different ranging schemes identified
as possible candidates for regeneration
status OK CAUTION PROBLEM
comment Good progress
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- 6. RNG WG
- Working Group Summary progress (cont.)
- Preliminary hardware results on a subset of the
four options available from one Agency - White book (Issue 1) to be issued by July 2005 is
being written with focus on regenerative PN
codes - Transparent PN codes will be addressed after WB
issue 1 is out. - Problems and Issues
- None so far.
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- 7. Prox-1-Build-2 WG
- Goal Update the Proximity-1 Space Link (3) books
to be in sync with the first generation of Prox-1
spacecraft - Working Group Status Active
- Working Group Summary Situation
- The only remaining item in this WG, is to resolve
the following physical layer requirements 1)
data rate offset, 2) short term data rate
stability, 3) long term data rate stability. - Working Group Summary progress
- Pink Sheets created for Prox-1 Physical Layer BB
to cover those three requirements above. - Problems and Issues
- None
status OK CAUTION PROBLEM
comment Work in progress
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- SLS-LEC Long Erasure Codes (tornado codes) BOF
- Goal Make, if conclusive, a proposal for the
creation of a WG on application of long
erasure-correction codes. - Working Group Status Active
- Working Group Summary Situation
- Working Group Summary progress
- Input provided by ESA/ESOC/UniBO.
- Problems and Issues
- NASA/JPL did not contribute to this meeting
(because of now solved- funding issues) but
report readiness to collaborate for Spring 2005
Meeting.
status OK CAUTION PROBLEM
comment ESA/UniBO work in progress NASA/JPL contribution on hold
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- SLS- LDPCC New Codes BOF (part 1)
- Goal Identify Requirements for future codes and
possibly select a family of Codes according to
identified requirements. - Working Group Status Active
- Working Group Summary Situation
status OK CAUTION PROBLEM
comment Identification agreement on requirements still slow and difficult Proposals still diverging in approach wrt to tentative requirements from Spring04
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- 9. SLS- LDPCC New Codes BOF (part 2)
- Working Group Summary progress
- Valuable input on requirements provided at this
meeting. - New input on possible candidate codes provided at
this meeting. - Problems and Issues
- Extremely limited interaction between meetings
likely to delay convergence of the work. - Identification of requirements and evaluation
criteria still variegated and needing
harmonization in single document to be possibly
approved by all members. - Possible debate on some requirements can be
anticipated. - Codes proposed by members for standardization
and/or reference still missing an harmonized
approach.
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- 9. SLS- LDPCC New Codes BOF (part 3)
- Plan of Action Decided at SLS Plenary (1)
- The discussion highlighted the need of
identifying and approving requirements in
stronger and more formal way. - ESA/ESOC/UniBO is leading the Editing work for a
Requirements and Evaluation Criteria Document
(RECD) (with weighting factor) for approval by
Agencies. RECD will include rationale for each
requirement. - 1st issue RECD shall be distributed by 10 January
2005. It shall provide a preliminary list of
requirements/rationale and evaluation criteria
for at least 3 application profiles High rate
EES TM, Deep space TM and Near Earth science TM. - Comments to 1st issue RECD by email by 31 January
2005. Telecon if necessary. - 2nd issue RECD distributed 15 Feb
- Comments to 2nd issue RECD 15 March any later
comment will be discarded. (Agencies will be
asked to sign up or deny individual items by
e-mail revision/discussion by 15 March 2005). - 3rd (tentative final) issue RECD distributed 25
March
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- SUMMARY TECHNICAL STATUS
- 9. SLS- LDPCC New Codes Codes BOF (part 4)
- Plan of Action Decided at SLS Plenary (2)
- SLS-LDPCC Spring 2005 Meeting (11..15 April 2005)
will be dedicated to addressing not closed
comments to 2nd issue and finalising the RECD. - Approval of RECD by agencies subsequent to
Spring05 meeting. - Upon approval of RECD, agencies will be invited
to submit proposals (codes) together with
compliance matrix to RECD. - Codes proposals to be discussed at Fall05 meeting
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- CROSS-AREA TECHNICAL ISSUES
- Issue 1 Secure CommunicationsJoint SLS Area
Security WG held 18 November - SLS Area work in the domain of security to start
once needs are established - Careful security analysis is needed prior to
adopting recommendations with high cost impact - Two resolutions
- Res Need for agencies interoperability needs on
security measures to be confirmed - Res Need for regular SLS Security WG meetings
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- OTHER ISSUES AND CONCERNS
- Issue 1 Secretarial Support SLS-DCEditorial
support for producing books could be improved.
Data Compression Red Book did not get any support
for edition of technical material (e.g. graphics,
equations, italicised symbols, numbering of
paragraphs, )SLS-RFMPink sheets were not
posted but mailed in corrupted file. Review
closing date had to be extended.SLS-CSBTAS
having problems with exotic formats used by
Coding people (i.e. Latex editor, eps pictures,
etc.). TM Channel Coding GB could not be
published.SLS-SLPPink sheets for AOS Link Layer
Protocol approved for agency review by CMC at
Spring04 meeting still not published
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 1 SLS-RFM-R-0410-001
- Considering that
- The following 23 editorially revised
recommendations were subject to Agency review
2.1.8B, 2.2.4, 2.2.6, 2.3.3A, 2.4.6, 2.4.7,
2.4.9, 2.4.14A, 2.4.14B, 2.4.15A. 2.4.15B,
2.4.16, 3.1.1, 3.1.6B, 3.2.1A, 3.3.1, 3.3.2A,
3.6.2A, 4.1.5, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3 and 5.1. - And recognizing that
- No RIDs were received during the first review
period - Review was extended until 1st Dec upon request
from one agency - The SLS Area resolves that
- Upon closure of review and disposition of Rids,
these 23 recommendations be raised to blue status
and inserted in 401-0 - ACTION ITEM 1 SLS-RFM-A-0410-001
- Upon closure of review and disposition of Rids,
SLS AD to request CESG/CMC to approve insertion
of the 23 above mentioned editorially revised
recommendations in blue book 401-0 January 2005
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 2 SLS-RFM-R-0410-002
- Considering that
- Revised recommendation 2.4.10 was subject to
Agency review - And recognizing that
- One RID was received during the review period,
discussed during the Fall 2004 meeting, and
disposed of - Review was extended until 1st Dec upon request of
one agency - The SLS Area resolves that
- Upon closure of review and disposition of Rids,
revised recommendation 2.4.10 be raised to blue
status and inserted in 401-0 - ACTION ITEM 2 SLS-RFM-A-0410-002
- Upon closure of review and disposition of Rids,
SLS AD to request CESG/CMC to approve insertion
of revised recommendation 2.4.10 into blue book
401-0. January 2005
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 3 SLS-RFM-R-0410-003
- Considering that
- The following 13 revised recommendations were
agreed upon during the Fall 2004 meeting 2.1.3B,
2.1.4B, 2.1.7B, 2.3.2, 2.3.3A, 2.3.3B, 2.3.4A,
2.3.4B, 2.4.6, 2.4.14B, 2.4.17B, 3.1.2B, 3.3.3A. - And recognizing that
- Proposed revisions are to bring such old
recommendations in line with current CCSDS
agencies practice - The SLS Area resolves that
- these 13 recommendations be raised to pink
status and be submitted for Agency review - ACTION ITEM 3 SLS-RFM-A-0410-003
- CESG/CMC to approve initiation of Agency review
for the above mentioned 13 revised
recommendations Dec 2004 - ACTION ITEM 4 SLS-RFM-A-0410-004
- CCSDS secretariat to issue the 13 pink sheets for
agency review 15 Jan 2005
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 4 SLS-RFM-R-0410-004
- Considering that
- Minor editorial changes to recommendations 2.4.2
and 2.3.5 were agreed upon during the Fall 2004
meeting. - And recognizing that
- Submitting editorial changes to Agency review is
an unnecessary waste of already constrained
Agency resources - The SLS Area resolves that
- editorially revised recommendations 2.4.2 and
2.3.5 be raised to blue status and inserted in
401-0 - ACTION ITEM 5 SLS-RFM-A-0410-005
- CESG/CMC to approve direct insertion of the 2
above mentioned editorially revised
recommendations in blue book 401-0 Dec 2004 - ACTION ITEM 6 SLS-RFM-A-0410-006
- CCSDS secretariat to insert recs 2.4.2 and 2.3.5
into book 401-0 15 Jan 2005
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 5 SLS-RFM-R-0410-005
- Considering that
- The Green Book containing Earth station
characteristics (411.0-G-3) dated May 1997 does
not reflect current capabilities and may mislead
users. - The document represents a resource used by many
organizations planning new missions. In the
past, NASA/JPL provided the book captain function
and would consider doing so again, provided that
the necessary funds were made available. - The SLS Area resolves that
- CESG/CMC be alerted about status of 411.0-G-3
so that necessary resources are made available
within an organization to update it. - ACTION ITEM 7 SLS-RFM-A-0410-007
- CESG/CMC to consider obtaining necessary
resources within an appropriate organization to
update 411.0-G. Dec 2004
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 6 SLS-RFM-R-0410-006
- Considering that
- A very difficult situation with recommendation
2.4.18 is being solved by a white 2.4.18 written
along the lines of SFCG recommendation 14-3R6 - Such SFCG rec is up for final approval at SFCG-25
(October 2005) - The activities of the RFM WG are due by August
2005 - And recognizing that
- Present problems with current 2.4.18 are in the
inconsistencies with SFCG which could be again
the case with new white version - The SLS Area resolves that
- the RFM WG schedule be extended until end of
November 2005. - ACTION ITEM 8 SLS-RFM-A-0410-008
- CESG/CMC to agree on RFM WG 3-months schedule
extension.
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 7 SLS-DC-R-0411-001
- Considering that
- Reference software is essential to
- Enable prospect missions teams to evaluate
CCSDS algorithm performances for real mission
data - Later, to enable implementation compliance with
published recommendation - And recognizing that
- Caution should be taken w.r.t. hosting on the
CCSDS site software which are subject to IPR from
a company - The AREA resolves that
- Open source reference software be made available
to users - ACTION ITEM 9 SLS-DC-A-0411-001
- CESG to investigate hosting open-source reference
software at CCSDS website but with license
agreement with the software originator
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 8 SLS-DC-R-0411-002
- Considering that
- Data Compression Red Book is currently under
review and Green Book under preparation - And recognizing that
- Current charter foresees BB GB issued July 2004
- Reference software should be made available at
the same time as BB and GB - The AREA resolves that
- Data Compression WG charter be updated to
reflect the actual plan - ACTION ITEM 10 SLS-DC-A-0411-002
- CESG to update Data Compression WG operating plan
based on the new schedule (plans) envisioned for
completing RED-2, GREEN BOOK, BLUE BOOK and
reference software.
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 9 SLS-RNG-R-0410-001
- Considering that
- Revised recommendation 2.5.6B was subject to
Agency review - No RIDs were received during the review period
- Revisions to 2.5.6B stem from current and future
delta-DOR practices by ESA and NASA - And recognizing that
- No other CCSDS Agencies are currently supporting
delta-DOR activities - The SLS Area resolves that
- revised rec 2.5.6B be raised to blue status and
inserted in 401-0. - ACTION ITEM 11 SLS-RNG-A-0410-001
- CESG/CMC to approve insertion of revised
recommendation 2.5.6B in blue book 401-0 Dec
2004. - ACTION ITEM 12 SLS-RNG-A-0410-001
- CCSDS secretariat to insert rec 2.5.6B into book
401-0 15 Jan 2005
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 10 SLS-SLP-R-0411-001
- Considering that
- HW commands, Packets, and user defined data will
be interchanged between inter-agency spacecraft
in proximity - And recognizing that
- There is a need for a standardized way to route
these data types between inter-agency spacecraft
in proximity - The SLS Area resolves that
- Pink Sheets to Space Link Identifiers BB be
provided to add Prox-1 Port ID values for
interoperability - ACTION ITEM 13 SLS-SLP-A-0411-001
- CESG/CMC to approve the release of Pink Sheets
for agency review Dec 2004 - ACTION ITEM 14 SLS-SLP-A-0411-002
- CCSDS Secretariat to issue Pink Sheets for agency
review 31 Jan 2005
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 11 SLS-Prox-1 Build2-R-0411-002
- Considering that
- Prox-1 Data Rate offset and short and long term
rate stability requirements need to be addressed
in the spec. - And recognizing that
- Without such requirements, implementations may
not be able to acquire at the specified Prox-1
data rates - The AREA resolves that
- Pink Sheets to Prox-1 Physical Layer BB be
provided for Agency Review to address data rate
offset and stability requirements. - ACTION ITEM 15 SLS-Prox-1 Build2-A-0411-001
- CESG/CMC to approve the release of Pink Sheets
for agency review Dec 2004 - ACTION ITEM 16 SLS-Prox-1 Build2-A-0411-002
- CCSDS Secretariat to issue Pink Sheets for agency
review 31 Jan 2005
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 12 SLS-SLP-R-0411-003
- Considering that
- Both the Space Link Protocols GB and the Space
Data Link Protocols GB have completed an informal
Agency Review (been on the CCSDS web site for
months) - And recognizing that
- There are no constraints against their
publication - The AREA resolves that
- Final Green books be provided to the CCSDS
Secretariat for inclusion onto the CCSDS Web
Site. - ACTION ITEM 17 SLS-SLP-A-0411-002
- Takahiro Yamada to provide both GBs to SLS-SLP WG
chair by Dec. 15, 2004 - ACTION ITEM 18 SLS-SLP-A-0411-003 CESG to
approve the release of the 2 GBs Dec 2004 - ACTION ITEM 19 SLS-SLP-A-0411-004 CCSDS
Secretariat to publish the GBs 31 Jan 2005
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 13 SLS-R-0410-001
- Considering that
- Agencies are currently working on security
measures for implementation in future space coms
systems - The Security WG is developing a GB on security
measures and prepares to produce recommendations - And recognizing that
- Not all measures may need to be the object of
interoperability - The SLS Area resolves that
- interoperability needs on security measures
(encryption, authentication, key management) be
confirmed - ACTION ITEM 20 SLS-A-0410-001
- CESG/CMC to establish a policy on whether a
common set of security measures should be
included in the CCSDS interoperability work Dec
2004
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- PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS FOR CESG/CMC
APPROVAL
- RESOLUTION 14 SLS-R-0410-002
- Considering that
- The Security WG is developing a GB on security
measures and prepares to produce recommendations - Security measures may affect all layers of the
stack - And recognizing that
- The Security WG needs the expert support from the
SLS Area - The SLS Area resolves that
- joint SLS Area Security WG meetings be held
on a regular basis - ACTION ITEM 21 SLS-A-0410-002
- SLS AD and SE AD to agree on regular SLS
Security meetings Nov 2004