[Cesg-all] Results of CESG Polls closing 21 May 2018

Wed May 23 18:38:59 UTC 2018

CESG E-Poll Identifier: CESG-P-2018-05-001 
Approval to publish CCSDS 350.5-G-1, Space Data 
Link Security ProtocolSummary of Concept and Rationale (Green Book, Issue 1)
Results of CESG poll beginning 7 May 2018 and ending 21 May 2018:

                  Abstain:  0 (0%)
  Approve Unconditionally:  3 (75%) (Shames, Cola, Moury)
  Approve with Conditions:  1 (25%) (Barkley)
  Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)

CONDITIONS/COMMENTS:

Erik Barkley (Approve with Conditions): 1) Pg 
2-14: From "...cryptographic church key 
management.." to "...cryptographic key 
management...". Rationale: CCSDS is not in the 
business of securing devices to open beer bottles!

2) Please check for complete popultaion of 
acronyms in Annex E: BC is mssing (as in BC 
Frames -- whereas TC for TC Frames is 
identified). Also, given that COP-1 shows up in 
Annex E, why do other abbreviations such as 
VC_OCF, MC_FSH not show up in here?

Total Respondents: 4
No response was received from the following Area(s):

MOIMS
SOIS

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-2018-05-002 
Approval to publish CCSDS 356.0-B-1, Network 
Layer Security Adaptation Profile (Blue Book, Issue 1)
Results of CESG poll beginning 7 May 2018 and ending 21 May 2018:

                  Abstain:  0 (0%)
  Approve Unconditionally:  2 (50%) (Shames, Calzolari)
  Approve with Conditions:  2 (50%) (Barkley, Cola)
  Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)

CONDITIONS/COMMENTS:

Erik Barkley (Approve with Conditions): Just 
would like to check -- I believe current state of 
the practice calls for AES-256 -- I am curious as 
to why this publication is for AES-128 only? 
There does not appear to be any rationale offerred.

Tomaso de Cola (Approve with Conditions): The 
yellow book reports testing done with IPv4 only, 
although the CCSDS IP-over-CCSDS recommendation 
(taken as reference) supports the use of IPv6 
too. SImilar considerations can be drawn on the 
use of ESP, which is for IPv4 and IPv6. Then, the 
question is: what about IPv6? Is it excluded 
because it won't change much the testing, or 
because it is not supported by the present recommendation?

Total Respondents: 4
No response was received from the following Area(s):

MOIMS
SOIS

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-2018-05-003 
Approval to publish CCSDS 508.0-B-1 Cor. 1, 
Corrigendum 1 to CCSDS 508.0-B-1, Issued June 2013
Results of CESG poll beginning 7 May 2018 and ending 21 May 2018:

                  Abstain:  0 (0%)
  Approve Unconditionally:  4 (100%) (Barkley, Shames, Cola, Calzolari)
  Approve with Conditions:  0 (0%)
  Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)

Total Respondents: 4
No response was received from the following Area(s):

MOIMS
SOIS

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

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CESG E-Poll Identifier: CESG-P-2018-05-004 
Approval to release CCSDS 354.0-R-1, Symmetric 
Key Management (Red Book, Issue 1) for CCSDS Agency review
Results of CESG poll beginning 7 May 2018 and ending 21 May 2018:

                  Abstain:  0 (0%)
  Approve Unconditionally:  3 (75%) (Barkley, Shames, Cola)
  Approve with Conditions:  1 (25%) (Calzolari)
  Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)

CONDITIONS/COMMENTS:

Gian Paolo Calzolari (Approve with Conditions): Section 1.1 tsates:
Recommendations exist for cryptographic 
operations, and how these can be combined with 
symmetric key management can be found in The 
Application of CCSDS Protocols to Secure Systems 
(reference [B2]) and Security Architecture for 
Space Data Systems (reference [B3]).
Being B2 dated 2006, are those (old) indications 
still really valid? Moreover B2 is a Green Book 
and it does not look the best place to look for 
Recommendations for cryptographic operations.
The Magenta B3 is more recent - dated 2012 - but 
still 6 years old. Is it really still actual?

Section A1.2 states that "CCSDS recommends 
cryptographic algorithms for this purpose in 
reference [B2]." but B2 is a Green Book and it 
does not look the best place to look for Recommendations.

B10 is never called in the documet,.

Total Respondents: 4
No response was received from the following Area(s):

MOIMS
SOIS

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-2018-05-005 
Approval to publish CCSDS 529.0-G-1, Mission 
Planning and Scheduling (Green Book, Issue 1)
Results of CESG poll beginning 7 May 2018 and ending 21 May 2018:

                  Abstain:  1 (20%) (Calzolari)
  Approve Unconditionally:  3 (60%) (Merri, Behal, Cola)
  Approve with Conditions:  1 (20%) (Barkley)
  Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)

CONDITIONS/COMMENTS:

Erik Barkley (Approve with Conditions): 1) 
Recommend that publication date for reference [4] be checked.

2) Pg 3-7, FROM: "...A simple schedule format has 
been proposed ..." TO: "...A simple scchedule 
fomrat exists..." RATIONALE: This is published CCSDS recommended standard.

Total Respondents: 5
No response was received from the following Area(s):

SEA
SOIS

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-2018-05-006 
Approval to publish CCSDS 524.3-B-1, Mission 
OperationsMessage Abstraction Layer Binding to 
HTTP Transport and XML Encoding (Blue Book, Issue 1)
Results of CESG poll beginning 7 May 2018 and ending 21 May 2018:

                  Abstain:  1 (20%) (Calzolari)
  Approve Unconditionally:  3 (60%) (Merri, Behal, Cola)
  Approve with Conditions:  1 (20%) (Barkley)
  Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)

CONDITIONS/COMMENTS:

Erik Barkley (Approve with Conditions): 1) Applicable RID dispositions

2) Prototype Test Report(s)

This will help to verify the "NOTING" clause of 
the resolution among other things.

Tomaso de Cola (Approve Unconditionally): I 
cannot see the interoperability testing report (yellow book)...

Total Respondents: 5
No response was received from the following Area(s):

SEA
SOIS

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

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