[CESG] Magenta, Blue and Profiles

[Hooke, Adrian J (9000)]

I'd like to try to wrap up a discussion that we had in February, where I believe that we had reached consensus on the following:

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1.      The litmus test between a Blue Book and a Magenta Book is as follows.

a.      If a document has interoperability properties, and;

b.      If it is directly implementable (i.e., two people could independently read the specification, each produce an independent implementations and it could be realistically expected that those two implementations would interoperate), and;

c.       If it clearly needs to be tested.
Then it is a Blue Book. If not, it is a Magenta Book.


2.      Within the Blue Book category there are three types of standard:

a.      CCSDS Recommended Standard (something that internally contains a native specification developed by CCSDS)

b.      CCSDS Recommended Standard: Adaptation Profile (something that adopts/adapts a native specification developed somewhere else, such as by another standards organization)

c.       CCSDS Recommended Standard: Utilization Profile (something that specifies how to use one or more existing CCSDS Blue Books to perform a particular function)

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Any disagreements? If not, we should adopt these guidelines as our working terms of reference and incorporate into the ongoing update to the Procedures Manual. The term "application profile" should then deprecated and removed from the description of Recommended Practices in our terminology.
Best regards,
Adrian

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