[Cesg-all] Message from WGs to Observer Agencies

[Kearney, Mike W. (MSFC-EO01)]

Dear WG Chairs:

Recent discussions have made us aware that our WG chairs should be reminded that part of your job is to recruit broad attendance and support to your working group.  Also, CCSDS would like to increase participation of members from Observer Agencies (as well as Member Agencies, of course).  To that end, we are composing an email to be sent to the Observer Agencies that will suggest to them that they directly contact WG chairs to increase their participation in CCSDS working groups.

As part of that email, we would like to offer to you that you can add a *short* special message directly from your working group that emphasizes perhaps some technology that will be exciting to them, or some special skills that your team needs.  For example...

**********Draft email

Dear Observer Agency representatives:

CCSDS would like to reach out to Observer Agencies and insure that your organization understands that we welcome and *encourage* the participation of experts from your teams in developing the next generation of data and communication standards for spaceflight interoperability.  When you bring your experts and their proposals to CCSDS for solving the technical problems associated with data and communications interfaces, you get support from other agencies, and many eyes on the problems, supporting your missions as well as your support to others.  Even if you don't have travel funding to attend our meetings, much work and review can be accomplished with between-meeting teleconferences and participation on the email lists.  Here is a sampling of the exciting work in our CCSDS Working Groups, and some special messages from the WG Chairs on specific technical areas that your experts could possibly help with.  More info on these and other Working Groups is available at http://cwe.ccsds.org/default.aspx.

Delay Tolerant Networking WG<http://cwe.ccsds.org/sis/default.aspx#_SIS-DTN>:  This exciting work is making the Solar System Internet a reality.  Our next important technical focus is on Network Management and Contact Graph Routing.

Spacecraft Monitor and Control WG<http://cwe.ccsds.org/moims/default.aspx#_MOIMS-SM&C>:  Our technology area is Service Oriented Architectures as applied to spaceflight missions.  We especially need experts with C++ binding experience.

Optical Communications<http://cwe.ccsds.org/sls/default.aspx#_SLS-OPT>:  We will increase the capacity of spacecraft downlinks to the Gigabit/sec range.  We need experts not only in optical communications, but the exchange of weather data as well.

Etc. etc....  (More *short* working group messages)

Your experts can either go directly to the links above or explore our Collaborative Work Environment (CWE - http://cwe.ccsds.org/default.aspx) and get contact information for our WG chairs, and also sign up for the mail list of those working groups, to experience the exciting technical challenges and activity that are ongoing in CCSDS.

Of course, even if your teams don't participate in development of new CCSDS standards, your programs and projects should be enthusiastically adopting the already published CCSDS standards<http://public.ccsds.org/publications/default.aspx>, simply for the benefits to your missions.  But if your experts have participated in the development, those standards are even more supportive of your mission needs, and more meaningful to your expert teams.

We look forward to hearing from your experts in our working groups' meetings and telecons.

Best regards,
   ~~~ The CCSDS Secretariat<http://cwe.ccsds.org/sec/default.aspx>

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Of course, the example WG statements above will be deleted, and we will include only those that you WG chairs author.

So, send your *short* inputs for this draft to the Secretariat mail list (no need to copy CESG-All unless you have something all WG chairs need to hear).  In CC above.  Please respond within a week (Wednesday Feb. 12.

Also, many of the CWE pages for your working group have only a line or two of text.  You should update your WG website to make your work look high-tech and interesting to visitors, as well as mentioning why this work is beneficial and important.  If you can do that, send your updates to CCSDS tech support at ccsds_techsupport at aiaa.org<mailto:ccsds_techsupport at aiaa.org>.

   -=- Mike

Mike Kearney
CCSDS Chairman and General Secretary
www.ccsds.org<http://www.ccsds.org/>
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NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama  35803, USA
+1-256-544-2029
Mike.Kearney at nasa.gov<mailto:Mike.Kearney at nasa.gov>

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