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<p class="MsoNormal">John,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I concur with Gian Paolo’s statements below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Greg<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">SLS-SLP <sls-slp-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org> on behalf of "Gian.Paolo.Calzolari@esa.int" <Gian.Paolo.Calzolari@esa.int><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 9:43 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"EXTERNAL-Pietras, John V (US 332C-Affiliate)" <john.pietras@gst.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"sls-slp@mailman.ccsds.org" <sls-slp@mailman.ccsds.org>, "Holger.Dreihahn@esa.int" <Holger.Dreihahn@esa.int>, SLS-SLP <sls-slp-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org>, Wolfgang Hell <wo_._he@t-online.de><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [Sls-slp] Questions about Encapsulation Packet Protocol<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">John,</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> here may cent waiting whatever additional clarification Greg or others may add.</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1) Clearly you refer to EOPP and not to SPP.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Clause </span> 3.2.1.2
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> can be understood considering Table 4-2.</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2) Indeed, a segment header is required to split packets over multiple frames. VCP Service has no segment header and therefore can only allow blocking (as per Figure 4-14) while MAP Packet Service
allows bot blocking and segmentation (as per Figure 4-9).</span> <br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">TM and AOS have a first header pointer - in Frame Header and M_PDU respectively - and this allows "packets spanning over several frames"</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A first header pointer is available also in USLP (see clause 4.1.4.2.2.2.1 for TFDZ Construction Rule ‘000’ indicating a fixed-length TFDZ). [you do not mention this in your item #2.]</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Conversely, USLPTFDZ Construction Rules ‘100’, ‘101’, and ‘110’ (indicating a variable-length TFDZ) can be used "a la TC' for "packets spanning over several frames"
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">3) I cannot say whether it was "</span>intention of the SLPWG that the multiplexing of Encap packets been done on a FIFO basis<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">". I would
simply guess that nobody thought to require a multiplexing there :o)</span> <br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In other words, I think there is nothing preventing an EPP implementation to implement a Multiplexing Scheme. I guess that if an agency has this need, SLP WG could discuss such input.</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Despite limitation to FIFO looks to me very reasonable for Functional Resources, I think that absence of a precise statement leaves freedom.</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">4) we shall pass this to Tom Gannett.</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Greg and others are welcome to complement my opinion.</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Regards</span> <br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gian Paolo</span> <br>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">From: </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"John Pietras" <john.pietras@gst.com></span>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">To: </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"sls-slp@mailman.ccsds.org" <sls-slp@mailman.ccsds.org></span>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">Cc: </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Wolfgang Hell" <wo_._he@t-online.de>, "Holger.Dreihahn@esa.int" <Holger.Dreihahn@esa.int></span>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">Date: </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">18-11-20 17:29</span>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">Subject: </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">[Sls-slp] Questions about Encapsulation Packet Protocol</span>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">Sent by: </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"SLS-SLP" <sls-slp-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org></span>
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<p style="margin:0in">SLPWG colleagues ---<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">As you may be aware, the Cross Support Services Area is developing a Functional Resource Model (FRM) that defines the functional resources that abstractly represent the various functions performed by Earth Space Link Terminals (i.e., ground
stations). The purpose of these functional resources is facilitate the definition of configuration profiles (used in scheduling) and to support the monitoring and control of the physical resources that are represented by those functional resources in cross
support situations. (For those of you familiar with the concept of a Management Information Base (MIB) in the context of network management protocols such as TCP/IP’s Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) or the ISO/OSI Common Management Information Protocol
(CMIP), the FRM is essentially the “MIB” for space data systems.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">We are in the process of completing the definitions of the functional resources that correspond to the CCSDS space data link protocol functions: TC SDLP, TM SDLP, AOS SDLP, USLP, Space Packet Protocol (SPP), and Encapsulation Packet Protocol
(EPP). In exploring the interactions among the Encapsulation Function defined in the EPP and the various underlying SDLPs, we have developed a question and several interpretations that I am now posing to you for comment:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">1. Section 3.2.1.2 of the SPP (CCSDS 133.1-B-1) specifies that “the maximum length of a data unit that can be accommodated in an encapsulating packet is 4,294,967,287 octets for the Encapsulation Packet.” Is this just the consequence
of that being the size supported by the 4-octet PACKET LENGTH field (LENGTH OF LENGTHS = ‘11’), or are there identified operational use cases for this large a packet?
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<p style="margin:0in">2. Section 3.2.2.2 confirms that Encap Packets can be transferred via the Virtual Channel Packet (VCP) service of the TM, TC, and AOD SDLPs, and via the MAP Packet (MAPP) service of TC SDLP and USLP. We make the observation that the
only time that the underlying SDLP constrains the size of the Encap packet is when the underlying service is the TC VCP service, where the maximum size of data unit carried by the Encap Packet is constrained to be 1015 octets. For the other SDLP services:
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<p style="margin:0in">a. When Encapsulation Packets are transferred via the TC MAPP and USLP MAPP services, segmentation is used to break large Encap Packets in order to fit into TC/USLP transfer frames.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">b. When Encapsulation Packets are transferred via the TM VCP and AOS VCP services, the respective Packet Processing functions break up the encap packets as necessary to fit them into M_PDUs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">If we have misinterpreted anything here please let us know.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">3. The Encapsulation Function performs a multiplexing function by forming Encap packets from data units from different “protocol users”, and multiplexing those packets into a single stream of Encap packets for the underlying Packet
service. We observe that, unlike other CCSDS SDLP functions that perform multiplexing (Space Packets, Packets, VC Frames, and MC Frames), there is no mention in the EPP Blue Book of multiplexing priority. We interpret that as the intention of the SLPWG that
the multiplexing of Encap packets been done on a FIFO basis. We concur with this approach, as we can see no practical reason for other multiplexing schemes, and we plan to define this aspect of the corresponding functional resource to be FIFO only.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">4. Finally, here’s an editorial error that should be fixed in the next editorial-level update of the EPP Blue Book: although the title of the book was changed from
<i>Encapsulation Service</i> to <i>Encapsulation Packet Protocol</i>, the heading on each page in B-3still reads “CCSDS RECOMMENDED STANDARD FOR ENCAPSULATION SERVICE”.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">Thanks in advance for any comments that you may have.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">John<o:p></o:p></p>
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