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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi, Mario:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The CESG poll that resulted in the decision to conduct another Agency review ended on December 14, 2016; four months later, the Secretariat is being asked to violate the rules in order to conduct a hurry-up, in-name-only review. This is really not a Secretariat problem.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>While text in the Org and Procs document implies flexibility in the review schedule, that flexibility is there to allow longer review periods for longer and more complex documents. It was never intended to imply the normal review period could be significantly reduced, and certainly not cut in half. The CCSDS has never conducted an international review anywhere near as short as 30 days. If we did business like that we would have zero credibility as a standards organization. ISO DIS review periods are 12 weeks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The reason a 30-day review is unreasonable, by the way, is that a 30-day review period, spanning semiannual technical meetings and associated travel, taking into account that some agencies have to do local distribution and convene local review boards, which activities can reduce the overall review period by a week or more, ends up being a review period of less than two weeks. We could be lucky and catch every technical expert who needs to review the book at every agency, at work, free from other tasks, and able to complete a review of a 180-page document during a week-to-ten-day period, but it is simply not reasonable to expect that sort of on-demand availability of reviewers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In any case, I have to follow the rules. So do you. So does Peter. Only the CMC has authority to suspend the rules.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thomas Gannett<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>thomas.gannett@tgannett.net<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>+1 443 472 0805<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Mario.Merri@esa.int [mailto:Mario.Merri@esa.int] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 24, 2017 1:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> Thomas Gannett<br><b>Cc:</b> cesg@mailman.ccsds.org; CMC-exec@mailman.ccsds.org; Nestor.Peccia@esa.int; danford.s.smith@nasa.gov; sam@brightascension.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [CESG] [CMC Alert] CCSDS Review of CCSDS 522.1-R-4, Mission Operations Monitor & Control Services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tom,</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>as you pointed out the procedure states that "... the the review shall <u>normally</u> allow 60 days ... " and that </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"a) the length of the review period may be adjusted according to the size and complexity of the review document;”</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The above clearly implies that our procedures allow, in certain cases, to shorten the review procedure. </span><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You probably followed the exchange between Peter and me: after a long discussion we finally agreed to go for the 4th <u>expedite</u> (i.e. 1 month) review as the way to meet Peter's conditions. My request for shortening the review was motivated by the fact that this is the 4th review. In addition, the 1 month review was also clearly spelled out in my resolution to call for the 4th review and I am not aware of anyone who opposed to that proposed approach.</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I would appreciate if you could reconsider your position and change the review period to 1 month.</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Regards,</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>__Mario</span> <br><br><br><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>From: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Thomas Gannett" <<a href="mailto:thomas.gannett@tgannett.net">thomas.gannett@tgannett.net</a>></span> <br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>To: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><<a href="mailto:Nestor.Peccia@esa.int">Nestor.Peccia@esa.int</a>></span> <br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>Cc: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"'CMC-EXEC'" <<a href="mailto:cmc-exec-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org">cmc-exec-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:CMC-exec@mailman.ccsds.org">CMC-exec@mailman.ccsds.org</a>, <a href="mailto:cesg@mailman.ccsds.org">cesg@mailman.ccsds.org</a></span> <br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>Date: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>20/04/2017 16:02</span> <br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>Subject: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Re: [CESG] [CMC Alert] CCSDS Review of CCSDS 522.1-R-4, Mission Operations Monitor & Control Services</span> <br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>Sent by: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"CESG" <<a href="mailto:cesg-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org">cesg-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org</a>></span> <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'>Dear Nestor:</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'>There is no provision in our procedures for shortening review periods to one month, as requested in the MOIMS resolution.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'>“6.2.5.1 The schedule for the review shall normally allow 60 days from the time of the review commencement for Agencies to conduct review and return comments to the review coordinator:</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'>a) the length of the review period may be adjusted according to the size and complexity of the review document;”</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'>In this case the review document is not only large and complex, but also differs substantially from the issue the preceded it.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'>“6.2.5.2 . . .</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> c) if substantive changes are made to a document that has completed review without technical comment, the Secretariat shall conduct a final review in which Agencies can approve or reject the document but may not suggest additional changes;</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> d) the Secretariat shall follow the same procedures for posting review materials and review announcement for each iteration of a review.”</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'>Provision 6.2.5.2 c) above does not apply in this case, because the previous review <i>did not</i> conclude without technical comment. Therefore this is a normal review, and provision 6.2.5.2 d) applies.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'>You, as CESG Chair, should support following CCSDS procedures. In any case, there is nothing in our procedures granting the CESG Chair authority to dictate that the Secretariat violate CCSDS procedures.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'>It is, however, in the purview of the CMC to hold CCSDS procedures in abeyance. I can set up a CMC poll requesting that review procedures for review of issue 4 of the MOIMS Red Book be ignored.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'>Best regards,</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'>Tom</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='color:#004080'> </span> <br><span style='color:#004080'>Thomas Gannett</span> <br><span style='color:#004080'><a href="mailto:thomas.gannett@tgannett.net">thomas.gannett@tgannett.net</a></span> <br><span style='color:#004080'>+1 443 472 0805</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span> <br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:Nestor.Peccia@esa.int">Nestor.Peccia@esa.int</a> [</span><a href="mailto:Nestor.Peccia@esa.int"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>mailto:Nestor.Peccia@esa.int</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>] <b><br>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 20, 2017 8:37 AM<b><br>To:</b> CCSDS Rapporteur<b><br>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:CMC-exec@mailman.ccsds.org">CMC-exec@mailman.ccsds.org</a>; CMC-EXEC; CESG -- CCSDS-Engineering Steering Group(<a href="mailto:cesg@mailman.ccsds.org)(cesg@mailman.ccsds.org)">cesg@mailman.ccsds.org)(cesg@mailman.ccsds.org)</a><b><br>Subject:</b> Re: [CMC Alert] CCSDS Review of CCSDS 522.1-R-4, Mission Operations Monitor & Control Services</span> <br> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tom,</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>The MOIMS AD has requested in his resolution (see below) a shorter review period of 1 month for the 4th Agency Review of the book.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>As CESG Chair I fully support this request and its justification, but you have ignored it as CTE.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Please reduce the review period to 1 month as requested.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>ciao</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>nestor</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>=============================</span> <b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Resolution MOIMS-SM&C WG-R-2017-04-003: Approval to release CCSDS 522.0-R-4, MO MONITOR & CONTROL SERVICES, for CCSDS Agency review </span></b><br><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>The MOIMS AD,</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CONSIDERING that the MOIMS/SM&C Working Group has already performed 3 Agency Reviews of the proposed draft Recommended Standard on “MISSION OPERATIONS – MONITOR & CONTROL SERVICES”,</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CONSIDERING that the 3<sup>rd</sup> Agency Review has resulted in significant changes,</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CONSIDERING that extensive additional comments have been received on the updated draft document as result of the CESG poll for publication,</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and RECOGNIZING that this version of the document has the approval of the SM&C WG Chair and of the MOIMS AD,</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>RECOMMENDS that the CCSDS Engineering Steering Group, as previously agreed, releases the document as a draft Recommended Standard for an <u>expedite</u> 4<sup>th</sup> CCSDS Agency Review, which implies:</span> <o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>No need for CESG/CMC poll for Agency Review (allowed by the YB)</span> <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>No/minimal re-checking of the draft document by the Chief Editor before initiating the Agency Review (being the 4<sup>th</sup> review, the document is already in the proper CCSDS format)</span> <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Chief Editor puts this document on top his waiting list queue</span> <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal 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