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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to request that the following terms from CCSDS 734x2b1 be included in the CCSDS Terms Registry. What’s below are all edited versions of the definitions in the Blue Book.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>bundle node (also simply ‘node’ or ‘BP node’)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>[NOTE: the definition here should also, IMHO, replace the current one for “</i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">DTN Node (DTN Router)”]<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any entity that can send and/or receive bundles. Each bundle node has three conceptual components: a ‘bundle protocol agent’, a set of zero or more ‘convergence layer adapters’, and an ‘application agent’.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>bundle protocol agent, BPA<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bundle node component that offers the BP services and executes the procedures of the Bundle Protocol.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>convergence layer adapter, CLA<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bundle node component that sends and receives bundles on behalf of the BPA. A CLA enables the BPA to interact with an underlying data transport mechanism such as a link or network to send and receive bundles.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>application agent, AA<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bundle node component that utilizes the BP services to effect communication for some purpose. The AA has an application-specific element and administrative element.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The application-specific element of an AA constructs, requests transmission of, accepts delivery of, and processes application-specific application data units; the only interface between the BPA and the application-specific element of the
AA is the BP service interface.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The administrative element of an AA constructs and requests transmission of administrative records. It accepts delivery of and processes any custody signals that the node receives.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> v/r,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> --keith<o:p></o:p></p>
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