[CESG] Comment on the CSS Area portion of the CCSDS strategic plan

Scott, Keith L. kscott at mitre.org
Tue Aug 11 15:30:49 UTC 2015


Yeah.  I think in the text of what I sent I used ‘application support protocols’ and in one case ‘the services provided by these protocols…’.  That seems consistent with what you say here, I think.

—keith

From: Peter Shames
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 11:27 AM
To: "Scott, Keith L.", "Mario.Merri at esa.int<mailto:Mario.Merri at esa.int>"
Cc: Nestor Peccia, Brian Oliver, CCSDS Exec
Subject: Re: [CESG] Comment on the CSS Area portion of the CCSDS strategic plan

I think I would avoid using terms like “network service”, because these protocols only nominally offer anything like a Service Access Point.  I do agree that AMS is more of the nature of what I called an “Application Support” protocol.  I’m not hard over on the term, but we need some way, I think, to distinguish these support protocols that are nominally in the “Application” layer, but whose role is to provide varius kinds of data transfer services in support of other applications.  I think if we reseve the term “Applications” or even “User Applications” for those apps that do user specific work, as opposed to moving bits about, we may get some leverage out of that.

My sensitivity about the reservation of the term “service” for things like SLE, CSTS, CSSM, etc, as well as future Robotics services, mission planning services, etc, is that these all expose specific application specific service interfaces, where the interface is an essential part of the specification instead of an optional abstraction.

Does this distinction make sense?

Regards, Peter


From: <cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org<mailto:cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org>> on behalf of Keith Scott <kscott at mitre.org<mailto:kscott at mitre.org>>
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 8:01 AM
To: Mario Merri <Mario.Merri at esa.int<mailto:Mario.Merri at esa.int>>
Cc: Nestor Peccia <Nestor.Peccia at esa.int<mailto:Nestor.Peccia at esa.int>>, Brian Oliver <briano at aiaa.org<mailto:briano at aiaa.org>>, CCSDS Engineering Steering Group - CESG Exec <cesg at mailman.ccsds.org<mailto:cesg at mailman.ccsds.org>>
Subject: Re: [CESG] Comment on the CSS Area portion of the CCSDS strategic plan

OK, and yes, there is an historical inconsistency there.  I think what you’re suggesting is the same thing I want — to get people (like MOIMS, SOIS, etc.) to think of applications over network rather than just applications (and not thinking of what’s under them, but probably assuming link).  SIS took on ‘applications' like CFDP and AMS, though our main focus is network and transport (and maybe I should add in ‘application support’ protocols per Peter’s email.  I’ve always had difficulty with ‘application support' (e.g. HTTP, I think, can be used for both, depending on context; when I invoke ftp from the command line, I think of it as THE application I’m using, but if some other application invokes an ftp file transfer, is FTP then an application service?).  To the transport layer, AMS looks like an application, but I concur that it’s intended to be used by OTHER applications as a … well, service, rather than a ‘direct-user’ application.  Maybe I want people to think of ‘application-over-network OR application-over-network-service’.

I’ve revised the text to add ‘application-service’ protocols in the initial definition, and changed goal 3 to ‘develop application support protocols that facilitate…’



—keith

From: "Mario.Merri at esa.int<mailto:Mario.Merri at esa.int>"
Date: Monday, August 10, 2015 at 9:46 AM
To: "Scott, Keith L."
Cc: Brian Oliver, CCSDS Exec, Nestor Peccia
Subject: Re: [CESG] Comment on the CSS Area portion of the CCSDS strategic plan

Keith,

1) 3rd goal: I proposed that change to make the goal consistent with your proposed change in the 2nd paragraph on top where you substituted "Application" with "Transport". No problem in leaving "applications", but then you should better qualify or limit the goal. Below a few relevant considerations from my side.

Video and Audio: my understanding is that these WGs aim at identifying interoperable solutions in terms of communications, protocol and data formats. We had already many joint meetings with Rodney on having on top of this standard Video/Camera services that could be based on MO Services. I would think the same apply to Voice. AMS is concerned with message transfer, so it is still at transport level. CFDP is a file transfer mechanism: there is already an identified MO service,  the File Management Service, that will use CFDP if this is required by the mission.

2) I think that there is no disagreement here. The main reason of my proposed change is that the MOIMS is not developing applications, but data (e.g. NAV formats) and services (e.g. MO services), therefore technically there is no "MOIMS application".

Regards,

__Mario



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Date:        10/08/2015 15:14
Subject:        Re: [CESG] Comment on the CSS Area portion of the CCSDS strategic plan
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Mario,

Thanks for the feedback.

I’d like to leave ‘applications’ in the third SIS goal, at least for the moment.  We’ve got the Voice and Motion Imaging WGs finishing up their work, and SIS is also home to things like CFDP and AMS.  I do agree that MOIMS owns at least a large piece of the ‘applications’ space within CCSDS and it is NOT SIS’ intent to pursue application development where such applications can be taken on by other areas (e.g. MOIMS, SOIS, CSS).

You also replaced ‘MOIMS applications over SIS internetworks’ with ‘MOIMS data and services over SIS internetworks’.  I’m fine with that but I thought there was an advantage (in promoting the SIS view of the world, at least) to ‘applications’ there as it reinforced the notion that SIS was doing internetwork stuff and the things running OVER the internetwork were applications.  Regardless of the language, this (apps over network) is the view SIS would like to promote.  Are you strongly in favor of the ‘data and services’ language?  Is there a reason for your suggested change that I’m missing?


V/r,

—keith

From: "Mario.Merri at esa.int<mailto:Mario.Merri at esa.int>"
Date: Monday, August 10, 2015 at 8:56 AM
To: "Scott, Keith L."
Cc: Brian Oliver, CCSDS Exec, Nestor Peccia
Subject: Re: [CESG] Comment on the CSS Area portion of the CCSDS strategic plan

Hi Keith,

my comments embedded. Please note that for some reason, Word has decided to use the same colour (red) for both your and my changes, at least on my computer. I've unsuccessfully tried to change it.

Regards,

__Mario





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Proposed changes to the SIS Strategic Plan attached as a Word Document with Track Changes on.

V/r,

—keith
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