[Cesg-all] Heads up: "Spring 2006"

[Adrian J. Hooke]

Folks: there is some good possibility (though it is not yet certain) that 
the Spring 2006 CCSDS meeting will be held in Rome from 12-16 June, 2006. 
That is the week preceding SpaceOps 2006 
http://www.spaceops2006.org/content.cfm?pageid=0&lumeetingid=1317&viewcon=overview. 


The theme of SpaceOps 2006 is "Earth, Moon, Mars, and Beyond" The 
preliminary program topics include at least one session on "The Space 
Operations Community: Other Views and Experiences - Standardization"

This schedule would present an excellent opportunity for a strong CCSDS 
presence in SpaceOps. In fact, I would like to suggest that every CCSDS 
Working Group should plan on getting a paper accepted. This is a great way 
to alert the community about what is current in CCSDS, and those papers can 
then be referenced on the CCSDS website. An accepted paper is also a good 
metric by which the performance of your WG can be assessed by the CMC.

The SpaceOps CFP is supposed to be released this month. Please watch for 
it, and please start planning towards a first rate set of papers to be 
submitted.

Also, since there may be a 9-month gap between Atlanta and a possible Rome 
meeting, you may want to factor that into your planning in terms of any 
intermediate meetings that you may need. There is also some distinct 
possibility that we will move towards a single "plenary" type meeting, 
nominally in the June timeframe each year. In between those annual 
meetings, you are likely to be "on your own" to arrange meeting hosting.

Best regards
Adrian

Adrian J. Hooke
Chairman, CCSDS Engineering Steering Group (CESG)
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