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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Ignacio,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you so much for your kind words. I have always appreciated your sensible and grounded approach to the work that we do and value you are a working colleague and a friend. It’s been great to have you
as a partner in the CESG “steering” job as well, which you approach with balance and reason.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I am, indeed, starting to sail off, but I’ll be with CCSDS and the CESG through the Fall meetings in the UK. I’m not fully retiring until early 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Very warmest regards, Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ignacio Aguilar Sanchez <Ignacio.Aguilar.Sanchez@esa.int><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, August 19, 2024 at 7:11</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Shames, Peter M (US 312B) <peter.m.shames@jpl.nasa.gov><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Asmar, Sami W (US 9100) <sami.w.asmar@jpl.nasa.gov>, Kazz, Greg (US 312B) <greg.j.kazz@jpl.nasa.gov>, CESG <cesg@mailman.ccsds.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] RE: My intention to retire from CCSDS and JPL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Peter,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Today is my first back to work after summer leave. Among the pending e-mail I found yours as well as the replies from Sami and Tim. So, my apologies for a late reply. Hopefully, you will be sailing
when this one reaches you</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">😊</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">I would just say that I have worked well with you for a quite a long time, first in one of the WGs in your area (Security), later as well in SDLS (joint SLS-SEA WG) and finally as CESG colleague
(SLS AD).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">We are going to miss you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">With my warmest regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ignacio</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:NotesEsa;color:#4F4F4F">Ignacio Aguilar Sánchez</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:NotesEsa;color:#4F4F4F">Communication Systems Engineer</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Shames, Peter M (US 312B) via CESG<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 24, 2024 11:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Asmar, Sami W (US 9100) <sami.w.asmar@jpl.nasa.gov>; CMC (cmc@mailman.ccsds.org) <cmc@mailman.ccsds.org>; CESG <cesg@mailman.ccsds.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Kazz, Greg (US 312B) <greg.j.kazz@jpl.nasa.gov>; Castano, Rebecca (US 9000) <rebecca.castano@jpl.nasa.gov>; Hart, Matthew J (US 3120) <matthew.j.hart@jpl.nasa.gov>; NDSSC Mailing List (ndssc@mailman.ccsds.org) <ndssc@mailman.ccsds.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CESG] My intention to retire from CCSDS and JPL</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Dear CCSDS Management Council (CMC) and Engineering Steering Group (CESG),</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">For some time now my answer to the occasional “When do you plan to retire?” question has been “In a year or two.” This note is to inform you that the answer to that question is now “Early in 2025, probably
as early January.” I have not yet established a fixed date, but that time-frame is what I am planning toward.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I’ve been working within CCSDS since 2000, so you could say that I have a lot invested in the organization. My intention is to make this transition as smooth as possible. For planning purposes I want you
all to be aware of the several different roles that I have, since all of them need to be filled, but not necessarily by a single person.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Systems Engineering Area (SEA) Director: This involves all of the usual duties of any AD, plus the Systems Engineering Area has the identified role,
in the CCSDS Org & Proc (A02.1-Y-4c), of being the sole Area in what is called the “Systems Domain”</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#215F9A;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT",serif">The Systems Engineering Area (SEA) covers system-wide engineering aspects that are so pervasive that they span both the
Informatics and Telematics Domains. The AD has the prerogative to define, in alignment with the CCSDS Strategic Plan, the set of projects that this Area contains at any point in time.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#215F9A;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT",serif">The SE Area currently includes: Security WG, Systems Architecture WG, Delta-DOR WG, and Time Management WG, plus SANA responsibilities.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Systems Architecture WG Chair: The SAWG provides key cross cutting documents, including the Reference Architecture for Space Data Systems (RASDSv2,
now in Agency Review), the Space Communications Cross Support Architecture documents (ISO layers 1-4, ARD is now in update, ADD is due next), the Application and Support Layer Architecture (ISO layers 5-7, ASL was published in Nov 2020), and the Reference
Architecture for Space Information Management (RASIM, which is now starting to be updated).
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Space Assigned Numbers Authority (SANA) Steering Group Chair (SSG): Responsible for providing operational and policy guidance to the SANA and the SANA
Operator. Editor for the SANA Policy and Procedures documents (SANA Procedures, Registry Management Policy, and WG Guidelines for SANA). Nominally assigned to the SEA AD, but could be another Area Director with an interest in the SANA.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The Fall 2024 meeting in London is the last meeting where I expect to be present and operating as the SEA AD and SAWG Chair. I also expect that there will be the usual call for candidates for these two elected
positions. I intend to be available to help mentor whoever gets elected into these positions between the time that they are appointed and when I retire.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">It has been an honor and a privilege to be given these roles and to work with our really excellent international team of CCSDS colleagues. I have valued all of the inter-personal discussions and interactions,
even the “challenging” ones. They all represented opportunities for personal growth, learning, and contributing to space exploration, and those attributes, in the end, feel like what is best about CCSDS.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">And now I’m making plans to go sailing…</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Best regards, Peter Shames</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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