[CESG] [Secretariat] FW: Publicly Available CCSDS Mailing List Archives

[Thomas Gannett]

All this is well and good, but I fail to see any reason to make those lists
private. CCSDS is not a secret organization, the work reflected in the
archives is publicly funded and neither classified nor sensitive, and
nothing is going on in either the CESG or CMC that justifies hiding the
list archives.  Beyond that, I believe they were made public by design, and
the SEA AD has no authority over the visibility of the CESG and CMC mailing
lists.



If a change like this is going to be made, it needs at the very least to
have a CMC resolution associated with it to obviate head scratching next
time someone asks why the archives are hidden from public view.

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Oliver, Brian (HQ-CG000)[Arctic Slope
Technical Services, Inc.] <brian.oliver at nasa.gov> wrote:

> All,
>
> I have just made the following Mailing List archives “private”.
>
> CMC
> CMC-EXEC
> CESG
> CESG-EXEC
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian Oliver
> CCSDS IT Tech Support
>
> On Oct 26, 2018, at 2:55 PM, Shames, Peter M (312B) <
> Peter.M.Shames at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
> Dear CESG,
>
> AT various times we have talked about the expectation that the CCSDS
> mailing lists, at least some of them, are closed and therefore private to
> that group.  This is a particular concern, I think, for the CESG and CMC
> discussions.  We control who can be added to those lists and also who can
> post to them.  But it appears that this "privacy" is not really the case
> since the email list archives are open to being read by anyone at all.
>
> See the following notice from the Sec WG.
>
> Also, see the CMC archives at https://mailman.ccsds.org/pipermail/cmc/
>
> I think we should probably suggest that the Secretariat do something about
> this.
>
> Regards, Peter
>
>
> *From: *Howie Weiss <Howard.Weiss at parsons.com>
> *Date: *Friday, October 26, 2018 at 10:19 AM
> *To: *Peter Shames <Peter.M.Shames at jpl.nasa.gov>
> *Cc: *"'Daniel.Fischer'" <Daniel.Fischer at esa.int>, Howie Weiss <
> Howard.Weiss at parsons.com>
> *Subject: *Publicly Available CCSDS Mailing List Archives
>
> Peter
>
> I had an action item from the Security WG that I neglected to do at the
> SEA closing plenary which I now discovered when going through my notes to
> write up the meeting minutes.
>
> The concern is with the working group mailing list archives.  Anyone,
> without any authorization, can read the archives.  As a result, we have
> eliminated any potential for mailing list privacy.  The mail is not just
> available to the members of the mailing list – they are available to anyone
> world-wide.
>
> Here’s a screen shot of the CESG archive that I just viewed (and I can
> read any of the emails listed).
>
> <image001.png>
>
> We believe that this must be fixed ASAP.
>
> Regards
>
> Howie
>
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