[Cesg-all] Results of CESG Polls closing 12 July 2019

Mon Jul 15 16:50:12 UTC 2019

CESG E-Poll Identifier:  CESG-P-2019-06-001 
Approval to publish CCSDS 141.0-B-1, Optical 
Communications Physical Layer (Blue Book, Issue 1)
Results of CESG poll beginning 30 June 2019 and ending 12 July 2019:

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

     Erik Barkley (Approve with 
Conditions):  1)  There are no dispositions 
indicated in the RID report.  Please include the 
dispositions of the RIDs in the RID report.

2) Patent considerations:

a) The recommendations states: No patents are 
known to relate to this Recommended Standard.

b) The test report states: JPL has not filed any 
patents specific to the proposed 141.0-R-1 
standard [1]. Implementers are cautioned that 
there are many patents on the general topic of 
physical layer optical communications.
a) and b) above seem to be at odds -- Please 
update the recommendation and/or test report as appropriate.

Total Respondents:  6

All Areas responded to this question.

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-2019-06-002 
Approval to publish CCSDS 142.0-B-1, Optical 
Communications Coding and Synchronization (Blue Book, Issue 1)
Results of CESG poll beginning 30 June 2019 and ending 12 July 2019:

                 Abstain:  1 (16.67%) (Merri)
Approve Unconditionally:  3 (50%) (Barkley, Burleigh, Wilmot)
Approve with Conditions:  2 (33.33%) (Shames, Calzolari)
Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)
CONDITIONS/COMMENTS:

     Peter Shames (Approve with 
Conditions):  Please state if Terms in Annex D 
are normative or non-normative.  There is no indication.

     Gian Paolo Calzolari (Approve with 
Conditions):  A small problem still be fixed as per attached file.

Total Respondents:  6

All Areas responded to this question.

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-2019-06-003 
Approval to publish CCSDS 352.0-B-2, CCSDS 
Cryptographic Algorithms (Blue Book, Issue 2)
Results of CESG poll beginning 30 June 2019 and ending 12 July 2019:

                 Abstain:  0 (0%) Approve 
Unconditionally:  6 (100%) (Barkley, Merri, Shames, Burleigh, Moury, Wilmot)
Approve with Conditions:  0 (0%) Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)
CONDITIONS/COMMENTS:

     Scott Burleigh (Approve 
Unconditionally):   A comment, not a condition: 
SIS has questions regarding this Recommended 
Standard generally, not the pink sheets.  Section 
3.1 mandates that all CCSDS missions use AES for 
encryption: what about missions that require 
authentication and integrity but don't need 
encryption?  Are CCSDS missions precluded from 
using encryption algorithms other than AES, or 
are they allowed to use other encryption 
algorithms so long as they also implement AES, 
even though they don't use it?  Maybe these are 
just questions of clarity in language, but they raise some concern.

     Jonathan Wilmot (Approve Unconditionally):  Suggestions not conditions.
Section 1.1 using standardized, well-known 
algorithms, the use of high-quality cryptography 
and authentication is ensured is not accurate as 
there are many older standardized, well-known 
algorithms that are not considered high quality 
any more.  Maybe include the phrase state of the 
art for this section and section 2.1

Section 1.5 Suggest rewording of towards 
joy-sticking of instruments to towards 
distributed direct control of instruments
Section 2.2 Additional background that may or not 
be applicable to this document. For onboard TTE 
networks, confidentiality and authentication can 
also be provided by the hardware network schedule 
and application partitioning. Only configured end 
points and applications are able to see the 
traffic. This allows high speed confidential 
authenticated data including voice and video to 
be exchanged without the overhead of encryption. 
It may be that encryption need only be applied at 
local area network external ingress and egress 
interface points. Note that in TTE all data is signed (CRC) in the hardware

Total Respondents:  6

All Areas responded to this question.

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

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CESG E-Poll Identifier:  CESG-P-2019-06-004 
Approval to release CCSDS 401.0-P-29.1, Radio 
Frequency and Modulation SystemsPart 1: Earth 
Stations and Spacecraft (Red/Pink Sheets, Issue 29.1) for CCSDS Agency review
Results of CESG poll beginning 30 June 2019 and ending 12 July 2019:

                 Abstain:  1 (16.67%) (Merri)
Approve Unconditionally:  5 (83.33%) (Barkley, 
Shames, Burleigh, Calzolari, Wilmot)
Approve with Conditions:  0 (0%) Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)
Total Respondents:  6

All Areas responded to this question.

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

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CESG E-Poll Identifier:  CESG-P-2019-06-005 
Approval to release CCSDS 902.13-R-1, Abstract 
Event Definition (Red Book, Issue 1) for CCSDS Agency review
Results of CESG poll beginning 30 June 2019 and ending 12 July 2019:

                 Abstain:  1 (16.67%) (Calzolari)
Approve Unconditionally:  3 (50%) (Barkley, Burleigh, Wilmot)
Approve with Conditions:  2 (33.33%) (Merri, Shames)
Disapprove with Comment:  0 (0%)
CONDITIONS/COMMENTS:

     Mario Merri (Approve with Conditions):  The 
comment associated with the Identifier field in 
Table 3-1 states: "NOTE  If the planning 
information is regenerated, then the identifier 
for a particular event may change."

This is not consistent with the needs of a 
Planning System (particularly a partially or 
fully automated one) that needs to correlate the 
events from one event file to the next generation 
of that file covering the same or an overlapping 
period of time. Despite the standard does not 
preclude the same ID being used, it should 
instead recommend that the ID remains constant 
across multiple generations/iterations of the same event.

If this were not the case, there would be an 
additional (possibly manual) process required to 
correlate successive instances of the same event 
exchanged between FDS and MPS  which is far from ideal.

     Peter Shames (Approve with 
Conditions):  This document should be relevant to 
the MOIMS Planning group as well.  Please ensure 
that they review and comment upon it.

In Annex A2.2: There should be a defined AR Role 
to permit a person to update the Schema registry

In Annex A2.3: Plese reconsider whether updates 
to the Epoch_Time_Systems registry should be a 
fre for all or managed, as in controlled by the 
WG or by the CSS Area in the absence of an active WG.

In Annex B2: The Schemas all have White Book "w" 
names, they should have Blue Book names.  The XML 
schema registry 
"service_management_xml_schemas/902Schema/902x13" is "Not found".

     Scott Burleigh (Approve Unconditionally):  A 
comment, not a condition: in 3.2.20.2,  I think 
it would improve clarity to change from "The 
TimeParameter class shall contain one and only 
one instance of a time parameter specialized from 
the AbstractEventTime class (see 3.2.14)" to 
"Each instance of the TimeParameter class shall 
contain one and only one instance of a time 
parameter specialized from the AbstractEventTime class (see 3.2.14)."

     Jonathan Wilmot (Approve 
Unconditionally):  Nothing in addition to other reviewer's comments

Total Respondents:  6

All Areas responded to this question.

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

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