[Cesg-all] SANA Registry status

[Shames, Peter M (313B)]

Dear CESG Colleagues,

During the last CCSDS working meetings in London we announced that the SANA operator was in place, that the SANA web site now exists (http://www.sanaregistry.org) and that there was a set of what we called "Candidate Registries" that had been created.  These candidate registries contain information culled from the existing Blue Books in each of your areas.  The purpose of the SANA, as you know, is to provide a single point of reference for all of the CCSDS managed numbers, namespaces, and XML schema.  A primary intent of the SANA is to provide "one stop shopping" for our users as to where to go looking for this information, and also to remove the need to produce a Blue Book update, with all of the review overhead that entails, in order to update some numbers in a table.

This is the list of candidate registries that are now on the web site:

Bundle Protocol Compressed Bundle Header Encoding Node Numbers<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/bp_cbhe_node_numbers>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/bp_cbhe_node_numbers>Bundle Protocol <http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/bp_cbhe_service_numbers> Compressed Bundle Header Encoding Service Numbers<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/bp_cbhe_service_numbers>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/bp_cbhe_service_numbers>CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP) Entity Identifier<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/cfdp_entity_id>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/cfdp_entity_id>CCSDS Glossary<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/glossary>
CCSDS Object Identifiers (OID)<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/oid>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/oid>CLCW Version Number<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/clcw_version_number>
Control Authority Organizations<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/cao>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/cao>Control Authority Organizations Contacts<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/cao_contacts>
Extended Protocol Identifiers<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/extended_protocol_id>
Frame Secondary Header Version Number<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/frame_secondary_header_version_number>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/frame_secondary_header_version_number>Internet Protocol Extension Header<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/ipe_header>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/ipe_header>Licklider Transmission Protocol Engine Identifiers<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/ltp_engineid>
Licklider Transmission Protocol Service Identifiers<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/ltp_serviceid>
MAP Identifier (MAP ID)<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/map_id>
Member Agency Control Authority Office Registries<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/macao>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/macao>Packet Version Number<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/packet_version_number>
Port Identifier<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/port_id>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/port_id>Protocol Identifier<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/protocol_id>
Radio Sources<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/radio_sources>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/radio_sources>SCPS-NP Domain Identifier (D-ID)<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/scps_np_domain_id>
SCPS-NP End System Identifier (ES-ID)<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/scps_np_end_system_id>
SCPS-NP Path Identifier (P-ID)<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/scps_np_path_id>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/scps_np_path_id>SCPS-NP Transport Protocol Identifier (TP-ID)<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/scps_np_transport_protocol_id>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/scps_np_transport_protocol_id>SCPS-TP Connection Identifier<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/scps_tp_connection_id>
Space Agencies<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/agencies>
Spacecraft Identifiers<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/spacecraftid>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/spacecraftid>Space Link Identifiers Registries<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/space_link_id>
Space Packet Protocol Application <http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/space_packet_protocol_application_process_id>
Process Identifier(APID)<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/space_packet_protocol_application_process_id>
Transfer Frame Version Number<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/transfer_frame_version_number>
<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/transfer_frame_version_number>Virtual Channel Identifier (VCID)<http://www.sanaregistry.org/c/virtual_channel_id>

The SANA operator has done the hard work of combing the CCSDS documents to identify those items that should be registered and creating these candidate registries.  It is the assigned task of the Area Directors and individual working groups to review these for accuracy and to approve them for release on the SANA web site.  It will eventually be necessary to provide some sort of WG policy statement as to how these registries are to be managed, but that is less important at this point than reviewing and approving the registries.

And please note, of all of the registries that were identified since last fall only one (1) is now an Approved Registry.  That is the:

Navigation Data Messages XML Schema<http://www.sanaregistry.org/r/ndmxml>

Go take a look at this (just click on the link) to see a good example of how an XML schema registry may be organized.    The XML schema that have been standardized in MOIMS SM&C, CSS SM, and MOIMS XFDU should be similarly documented and registered.  This is a task that these working groups will have to take up, but the SANA operator will provide assistance.  At a minimum at least the whole schema should be registered so that our users can reference them in one well identified, easy to find, on-line, repository.

Please take some time during this coming week of working meetings to at least go look at these candidate registries and make some assignments to get them reviewed and approved by the working group.  It is important to get this done and it is your responsibility.

Best regards, Peter

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Peter Shames
CCSDS System Engineering Area Director

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 301-490
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

Telephone: +1 818 354-5740,  Fax: +1 818 393-6871

Internet:  Peter.M.Shames at jpl.nasa.gov
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