[CESG] IOAG: Service Catalogue #1 / File Services warning (complete)

Gian.Paolo.Calzolari at esa.int Gian.Paolo.Calzolari at esa.int
Tue Sep 27 17:15:12 UTC 2016


Keith,
        the FORWARD LAST HOP DELIVERY SERVICE is in IOAG Catalog 2) and it 
"is designed to operate over SSI networked end-to-end services, and it 
will enable a user (in node 1) to transfer data to a spacecraft 
(identified as end node ?n?) via multi-hop relaying of a file through a 
sequence of ?n-1? either DTN or IP nodes. This service uses the CFDP 
application to transfer a file as described in 4.3 on top of the Forward 
Internetworking Services for either DTN or IP extending up to node ?n-1?. 
In node ?n-1?, an application referred as Delivery Agent resides and 
provides the data delivery to the last node. The last hop from node ?n-1? 
to end node ?n? does not rely on SSI networked services."

We can discuss when we finish the saga for Catalog 1.  :o)

Ciao

Gian Paolo


From:   "Scott, Keith L." <kscott at mitre.org>
To:     "Tomaso.deCola at dlr.de" <Tomaso.deCola at dlr.de>, 
"peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov" <peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov>, 
"Gian.Paolo.Calzolari at esa.int" <Gian.Paolo.Calzolari at esa.int>
Cc:     "cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org" <cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org>, 
"cesg at mailman.ccsds.org" <cesg at mailman.ccsds.org>
Date:   27/09/2016 19:08
Subject:        Re: [CESG] IOAG: Service Catalogue #1 / File Services 
warning (complete)



Right, this is the notion in the ICPA of what Chris Taylor referred to as 
?first-hop / last-hop? services.  If you?ve got a spacecraft that is 
otherwise SSI-aware but is now in trouble, it might not HAVE DTE 
capability and the only way to get emergency link-layer commands to it 
(assuming it was built to do that, which seems reasonable) would be to 
ship a bunch of frames to some SSI-enabled spacecraft NEAR the troubled 
one, then blast those frames at the troubled one.  My notion is that this 
is a standardized application that could be present on all (ok, many) 
SSI-enabled spacecraft, and the standardization bit is in how to express 
the ?here?s what to send and here?s how to send it? part.  The content 
(data + instructions) is shipped to the functioning spacecraft over one of 
the the SSI networking protocols (BP or IP).
 
My understanding is that the FF service takes frames, moves them 
somewhere, combines them with other stuff and/or does whatever needs to be 
done to form a transmittable serialized stream of bits, and hands that 
stream off for radiation.  If that understanding is correct, if I use 
bundles as the shipment mechanism, FF service is pretty much a description 
of the SSI first hop / last hop service.  And, I hope that unless there?s 
a need to be more specific, the forward frame service could use any number 
of underlying mechanisms for shipment (e.g. TCP/IP suite, BP, etc.)
 
                                --keith
 
From: "Tomaso.deCola at dlr.de" <Tomaso.deCola at dlr.de>
Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 12:59 PM
To: Peter Shames <peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov>, Gian Calzolari 
<Gian.Paolo.Calzolari at esa.int>, Keith Scott <kscott at mitre.org>
Cc: "cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org" <cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org>, 
CCSDS Exec <cesg at mailman.ccsds.org>
Subject: RE: [CESG] IOAG: Service Catalogue #1 / File Services warning 
(complete)
 
If I don?t misinterpret Keith?s statement, I think it is about exploiting 
tunneling capabilities of the bundle protocol so that is able to transport 
?blindly? CCSDS frames. Obviously we don?t want to flip the CCSDS protocol 
stack.
 
Tomaso 
 
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From: CESG [mailto:cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org] On Behalf Of Shames, 
Peter M (312B)
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 6:35 PM
To: Gian.Paolo.Calzolari at esa.int; Scott, Keith L.
Cc: CESG; CCSDS Engineering Steering Group - CESG 
Exec(cesg at mailman.ccsds.org)
Subject: Re: [CESG] IOAG: Service Catalogue #1 / File Services warning 
(complete)
 
Gotta say I agree with Gippo on the last part of this.  I too found that "
forward frame service running over bundles" statement very confusing.  Was 
it a typo?
 
The operating assumption, as documented in SCCS-ADD, is that DTN bundles 
run on top of CCSDS frames and thus on top of CSTS services, not 
underneath them.
 
Peter
 
 
From: Gian Paolo Calzolari <Gian.Paolo.Calzolari at esa.int>
Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 8:32 AM
To: Keith Scott <kscott at mitre.org>
Cc: CCSDS Engineering Steering Group - CESG Exec <cesg at mailman.ccsds.org>, 
CESG <cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org>, Nestor Peccia <
Nestor.Peccia at esa.int>, Peter Shames <peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: [CESG] IOAG: Service Catalogue #1 / File Services warning 
(complete)
 
Keith, 
       try to keep in mind that an IOAG Service is indeed a collection of 
Space Link Interface Standards & Ground Link Interface Standards. 
Moreover, as Nestor underlined, Catalog 1 is for ABA configuration and the 
CFDP transmission only covers the single hop space to ground (or vice 
versa). 

When you say "  I understood the forward file service to have evolved into 
a mechanism/semantic for zipping a bunch of stuff together (metadata, 
data, etc.) " I think you refer to the  Ground Link Interface Standard 
under development in CSS; i.e. only to a part of the IOAG Serrvice. 

Last but not least I am very puzzled by the statement "forward frame 
service running over bundles". Catalog 2 states that <<The CSTS Forward 
Frame Services above is ?to be written?. It is assumed that this Service 
will provide a forward frame service for [AOS] and [TC-DLP] implementing 
multiplexing, frame fill and coding in the provider and implementing the 
full stack down to the physical layer>> so having AOS or TC frames running 
over bundles would reverse our CSCDS Stack where are bundles that - throug 
e.g. encapsulation service - run over AOS and TC frames. 

Regards 

Gian Paolo 



From:        "Scott, Keith L." <kscott at mitre.org> 
To:        "Shames, Peter M (312B)" <peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov>, "
Nestor.Peccia at esa.int" <Nestor.Peccia at esa.int>, "CCSDS Engineering 
Steering Group - CESG Exec(cesg at mailman.ccsds.org)" <
cesg at mailman.ccsds.org> 
Date:        26/09/2016 22:06 
Subject:        Re: [CESG] IOAG: Service Catalogue #1 
Sent by:        "CESG" <cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org> 




Peter, 
  
I think I agree with you.  My concern from the beginning has been that I 
do not want the forward file service to morph into a way to try to do 
multi-hop forwarding using file transfers as the ?data link? mechanism.  I 
understood the forward file service to have evolved into a 
mechanism/semantic for zipping a bunch of stuff together (metadata, data, 
etc.) to be used by the end system application (the receiver end of the 
data transfer), with possibly some application semantics layered on top. 
  
In fact, if the forward-XXX services were generalized just a bit, I think 
they?d cover the DTN emergency command/telemetry case.  Or maybe the DTN 
emergency commanding service is the forward frame service running over 
bundles, I hadn?t thought of that until now but I like it.  If part of the 
CSTS forward-frame service states how to tunnel (in my case, FRAMES) to a 
remote location and then radiate them, and if it can be run over BP as a 
transport mechanism?   It would address an IOAG need, at least. 
  
                                --keith 
  
  
From: "cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org" <cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org> on 
behalf of Peter Shames <peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Monday, September 26, 2016 at 3:33 PM
To: Nestor Peccia <Nestor.Peccia at esa.int>, CCSDS Exec <
cesg at mailman.ccsds.org>
Subject: Re: [CESG] IOAG: Service Catalogue #1 
  
Nestor, 
  
I know that this is a late input, but after reading the IOAG Svc Cat #1 I 
have a very real concern that I think needs to be surfaced.  Four new 
services have been introduced, the "Forward/Return CFDP-File Service Type" 
and the "Forward/Return PACKETS-File Service Type".  In reading through 
the descriptions I find that they mention certain SM characteristics, but 
fail to acknowledge the required presence of a whole lot of "packet / file 
/ frame plumbing" that is missing in most of our current systems.  Of 
particular concern, from a standards and logistics point of view, is that 
these new standards require a lot of the "plumbing" that CSTS F-Frame is 
supposed to provide, but make no mention of that standard.  In fact, the 
precursor standards, "Forward Synchronous Encoded Frame Service Type" has 
been dropped, and what is left is just some sort of weak "forward 
reference" to a CSTS F-Frame service. 
  
I think this is a huge mistake and that we should push back on it. 
  
Here is the logic behind this: 
  
1)      FF-CSTS includes the key services and functions that are required 
for anything like forward file, or forward packet, or forward DTN to work. 

2)      These functions include, quoting from the report "Users shall be 
aware that IOAG Service Catalog 2 foresees a future CSTS Forward Frame 
Service that is assumed will provide a forward service for [AOS] and 
[TC-DLP] frames implementing multiplexing, frame fill and coding in the 
provider and implementing the full stack down to the physical layer." 
3)      In order to implement a forward file or packet service all of 
these functions, plus frame creation, must be present in the service 
provider. 
4)      It makes little technical sense to create forward file and forward 
packet services, as new separate services that embed all of these 
function, instead of creating the FF-CSTS service and then building CFDP 
and Packet service "plug-ins" on top of that which use this underlying 
service. 
  
In fact, this approach is exactly how the forward file service is now 
described in the SCCS-ADD.  I draw your attention to CCSDS 901.1-M-1, sec 
5.2.2.2 and sec 6.2.2.2.  In fact, fig 6-4 shows the relationships among 
SM, CSTS F-Frame, the associated functions that are required, including 
ranging, and also SLE R-AF, and fig 6-8 (ABA ESLT Forward-File Protocol 
Building Blocks) shows how F-Frame and Fwd frame are designed to be 
integrated.  Any sort of forward packet service ought to just be a variant 
of this. 
  
My recommendation is that CCSDS push back on this IOAG Cat 1 request for 
two new stand alone services and instead argue that CSTS F-Frame should be 
done first, and these other new service built upon that base. 
  
Regards, Peter 
  
  
  
From: CESG <cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org> on behalf of Nestor Peccia <
Nestor.Peccia at esa.int>
Date: Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 3:43 AM
To: CCSDS Engineering Steering Group - CESG Exec <cesg at mailman.ccsds.org>
Subject: [CESG] IOAG: Service Catalogue #1 
  
REMINDER 

Please let me have your comments (in particular from the CSS Area) by 22nd 
Sept 2016 cob. 

ciao 
nestor 

============================ 
Dear all, 

Please  find attached the Service Catalogue #1 that has been approved by 
the IOAG. 

You should be aware that the final approval regarding the editorial 
updates from NASA is still pending. There is an on-going discussion 
concerning service management ?function? vs. service management ?service?. 


However, this version is good enough to be processed by the CESG. 


[attachment "IOAG Service Catalog One.v2.0-Approved-20160823.pdf" deleted 
by Nestor Peccia/esoc/ESA] 
[attachment "IOAG Service Catalog One.v2.0-Approved-20160823withBars.pdf" 
deleted by Nestor Peccia/esoc/ESA] 

CESG will address this update during our next webex. 

Main changes are : 
1.        forward / return CFDP file over terrestrial generic file 
2.        forward / return packet file service  over terrestrial generic 
file 
3.        Service Management functions 


ciao 
nestor 
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