[Sis-SCPS-INTEREST] IRP A6-08 Announcement of Review Opportunity

[Adrian J. Hooke]

>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:08:29 -0500
>From: CCSDS Rapporteur <secretariat at mailman.ccsds.org>
>Subject:  IRP A6-08 Announcement of Review opportunity
>
>Control Number: IRP A6-08
>
>The following draft CCSDS Recommended Standard has been placed on line and 
>is available for review:
>
>      CCSDS 714.0-P-1.1.  Space Communications Protocol Specification
>                          (SCPS)--Transport Protocol (SCPS-TP).
>                          Pink Sheets.  January 2006.
>
>DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION:  This draft update to the  Space Communications 
>Protocol Specification (SCPS) Transport Protocol (SCPS-TP) specification:
>   - adds optional support for Selective Acknowledgements (SACK) and
>Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN);
>   - defines semantics to extend SCPS-TP signaling to allow optional
>inclusion of vendor- and community-specific options.
>
>Additionally, some ambiguities in the original specification are clarified:
>
>   - clarification regarding the inclusion/position of compressed short-form
>SNACK options in compressed SCPS-TP headers (the position of the
>compressed SNACK option within the header is given);
>   - clarification of what connection identifier is transmitted in
>compressed headers (the one sent to the peer during the SYN exchange);
>   - clarification of what N-user protocol ID is used to calculate the
>pseudo header checksum when header compression is in use (decimal 105).
>
>
>The review document, in Portable Document Format (PDF), and associated 
>review materials are available for downloading at the following location:
>
>      http://public.ccsds.org/sites/cwe/rids
>
>Review comments should be submitted on or before 2006-5-15 to the Working 
>Group Chairman, Keith Scott:
>
>  E-mail: kscott at mitre.org