[Cesg-all] Results of CESG Polls closing 14 September 2017

[CCSDS Secretariat]

CESG E-Poll Identifier: CESG-P-2017-08-005 
Approval to publish CCSDS 401.0-B-27, Radio 
Frequency and Modulation Systems—Part 1: Earth 
Stations and Spacecraft (Blue Book, Issue 27)
Results of CESG poll beginning 31 August 2017 and ending 14 September 2017:

                  Abstain:  2 (33.33%) (Merri, Behal)
  Approve Unconditionally:  4 (66.67%) (Barkley, Burleigh, Calzolari, Wilmot)
  Approve with Conditions:  0 (0%)
  Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)

Total Respondents: 6
No response was received from the following Area(s):

SEA

SECRETARIAT INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS:  Approved Unconditionally
PROPOSED SECRETARIAT ACTION:            Generate CMC poll

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CESG E-Poll Identifier: CESG-P-2017-08-006 
Approval to publish CCSDS 522.1-B-1, Mission 
Operations Monitor & Control Services (Blue Book, Issue 1)
Results of CESG poll beginning 31 August 2017 and ending 14 September 2017:

                  Abstain:  1 (16.67%) (Calzolari)
  Approve Unconditionally:  5 (83.33%) (Barkley, 
Merri, Behal, Burleigh, Wilmot)
  Approve with Conditions:  0 (0%)
  Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)

CONDITIONS/COMMENTS:

Erik Barkley (Approve Unconditionally): Following 
is commentary only. This is not a condition.
The test report is impressive in its thoroughness 
and, from a strictly technical point of view, 
appears to be quite complete. But it is done 
strictly in the abstract. From the test report, 
just to quote a somewhat random sampling, there 
are statements along the lines of:

. Forces preCheck to return false, then checks that preCheck returns false

. that attempting to change an argument's raw unit value is successful

While it is noted that it is very good to have 
all of the logic checks called out, this logic is 
strictly in the abstract, and therefore no 
demonstration of this logic against real world 
mission operation scenarios. As there is no such 
demonstartion there is then a lack of 
check/assurance that the logic is in fact not 
"empty". I suspect it is not. Mapping the 
abstract service via prototype testing to some 
real world mission operation scenarios would, I 
think, hlep the working group to make the 
recommendation more compelling and thereby help 
to foster adoption for real world missions.

To further illustrate this, consider a mission 
launch scenario, or an orbit insertion, or entry 
descent and landing. In addition, consider some 
sort of on-board fault detection. I believe 
multiple of our member agencies have had to deal 
with these kind of scenarios and exercise 
spacecraft recovery as a result of on-board fault 
detection etc. It would be interesting to see the 
services of the recommendation applied against 
such real-world scenarios and demonstrated as to 
how they (the scenarios) could be accommodated in a standardized fashion.


Total Respondents: 6
No response was received from the following Area(s):

SEA

SECRETARIAT INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS:  Approved Unconditionally
PROPOSED SECRETARIAT ACTION:            Generate CMC poll

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CESG E-Poll Identifier: CESG-P-2017-08-007 
Approval to publish CCSDS 524.2-B-1, Mission 
Operations—Message Abstraction Layer Binding to 
TCP/IP Transport and Split Binary Encoding (Blue Book, Issue 1)
Results of CESG poll beginning 31 August 2017 and ending 14 September 2017:

                  Abstain:  1 (16.67%) (Calzolari)
  Approve Unconditionally:  4 (66.67%) (Barkley, Merri, Behal, Wilmot)
  Approve with Conditions:  1 (16.67%) (Burleigh)
  Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)

CONDITIONS/COMMENTS:

Erik Barkley (Approve Unconditionally): A comment, not a condition.

Some of the RID dispostions read both accepted 
and rejected. It appears that this is a log of 
the disposition status. In the future, it is 
recommended to only record the final disposition 
for the RID report presented for polling purposes.

Scott Burleigh (Approve with Conditions): It was 
not clear to me which MAL operations map to 
initiation and acceptance of TCP connections 
using "socket" terminology. I think most TCP 
developers are more familiar with the socket API 
than with the TCP protocol specification, so I 
think adding some notes on this mapping might improve implementation success.


Total Respondents: 6
No response was received from the following Area(s):

SEA

SECRETARIAT INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS:  Approved with Conditions
PROPOSED SECRETARIAT ACTION:            Generate 
CMC poll after conditions have been addressed

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CESG E-Poll Identifier: CESG-P-2017-08-009 
Approval to publish CCSDS 766.2-B-1, Voice and 
Audio Communications (Blue Book, Issue 1)
Results of CESG poll beginning 31 August 2017 and ending 14 September 2017:

                  Abstain:  0 (0%)
  Approve Unconditionally:  5 (83.33%) (Barkley, 
Merri, Behal, Burleigh, Calzolari)
  Approve with Conditions:  1 (16.67%) (Wilmot)
  Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)

CONDITIONS/COMMENTS:

Jonathan Wilmot (Approve with Conditions): 
Satifactory answers to a short list of questions. 
The questions will be sent to the SIS/Voice 
Working Group chair by CoB 9/15/2017


Total Respondents: 6
No response was received from the following Area(s):

SEA

SECRETARIAT INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS:  Approved with Conditions
PROPOSED SECRETARIAT ACTION:            Generate 
CMC poll after conditions have been addressed

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CESG E-Poll Identifier: CESG-P-2017-08-010 
Approval to publish CCSDS 881.1-B-1, Spacecraft 
Onboard Interface Services—RFID Tag Encoding Specification (Blue Book, Issue 1)
Results of CESG poll beginning 31 August 2017 and ending 14 September 2017:

                  Abstain:  3 (50%) (Merri, Behal, Calzolari)
  Approve Unconditionally:  3 (50%) (Barkley, Burleigh, Wilmot)
  Approve with Conditions:  0 (0%)
  Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)

Total Respondents: 6
No response was received from the following Area(s):

SEA

SECRETARIAT INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS:  Approved Unconditionally
PROPOSED SECRETARIAT ACTION:            Generate CMC poll

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