[CESG] [EXTERNAL] OID repository: Updated

Tue Sep 15 18:25:53 UTC 2020

Hi Marc,

Thanks for that feedback and glad that you think this is a good outcome.   I was pleased and surprised by how quickly  and adroitly they responded.

Marc, I would be content to leave it as it is, with just a top level pointer to SANA, for all the reasons you identified.  What I really had in mind with that "first level OID" comment was just to ask them to insert a list of a few items, like the ones I identified.  It did not even need to include the OID pointers, just the names, as a sort of "teaser" as to what would be found on the SANA end of the URL.

We do not need to do that, but it would provide some motivation.

Does anyone else on this email chain have any other opinions or feedback?

Thanks, Peter

From: Marc Blanchet <info at sanaregistry.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 10:20 AM
To: Peter Shames <peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: "SANA Steering Group (SSG)" <ssg at mailman.ccsds.org>, CCSDS Engineering Steering Group - CESG Exec <cesg at mailman.ccsds.org>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] OID repository: Updated

On 15 Sep 2020, at 12:56, 'Shames, Peter M (US 312B)' via Engineering
wrote:

Dear SANA, et al,

A recent question came up relating to the use of the ISO Object
Identifiers (OID) that we have built into the SANA revisions.  The
question was related to the use of SCIDs as a unique identifier for
spacecraft.  Since SCIDs are not unique (and never were) my suggestion
was that the ISO OIDs that we assigned to spacecraft when they request
SCIDs should be used.  These are truly globally unique identifiers and
persist once assigned.  They can also be assigned by the SANA even if
a SCID is not requested.  How wide this use will be remains to be
seen, but that is a separate topic.

When I went looking for an Internet link to the OIDs that we have
defined I realized that while CCSDS has an OID assigned [1.3.112.4],
and that could be looked up in an on-line OID registry
(https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://oid-info.com__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cuBI_mBF0B9Y8UF5gp3N2lKCCahRYAUWZfTVZQsgf9ACgpqs2HL-cDU7PTvAFF9DpTOjAfOS$<https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/oid-info.com__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cuBI_mBF0B9Y8UF5gp3N2lKCCahRYAUWZfTVZQsgf9ACgpqs2HL-cDU7PTvAFF9DpTOjAfOS$> ), there was no connection from this CCSDS OID
entry to the SANA registries where these detailed CCSDS OIDs were
documented.  This was a gap and expecting users to navigate from this
OID registry, to the CCSDS website, to the SANA, seemed to be too much
to expect.

Yesterday I reached out to this OID registry and asked if they could
remedy this.  They have done that, and in spades.  They not only
updated the CCSDS registry entry, and added a link to the SANA
registries, but they also included references to the SANA Yellow Books
that document the registries.  I have attached a snapshot of the
current entry in their oid-info.com registry and also one of the SANA
page that their link now takes the user to.

As you can see from their reply, we have control over this information
and could, if we wished, send them the whole set of OIDs.  We could do
this, or we could just send them the top level decomposition, and use
that as a driver of users to our site, which is the authoritative
source.  I see no benefit is sending them the whole OID set,

yes. given that our OIDs are generated automatically and often, it makes
no sense to regularly copy the whole tree to them.

but do see a potential benefit in sending them the first level decomp,
which is the names of the sets: organizations, contacts, spacecraft,
SLE, CSS, S/C, Service Site & Aperture, etc.  See CCSDS OID
screenshot.

the problem here is that we will still need to send them new versions
whenever a new first level is added. I think manual duplication like
that is just a recipe for failure. If there was a distributed resolution
system (like the DNS), then we would not need to do copies and
everything will be connected. Hence, I suggest we just have the entry of
our root into their tree.

To me, what you just did with them is very good and enough: have them
point to the root of our tree and let us handle the sub-tree.

my 2 cents,

Marc.

Wanted you all to be aware of this and to have an opportunity to
review, comment, and request changes if any appear to be needed.

And BTW, there are also some Wikipedia web pages for OID that I intend
to update as well.  Might as well get some added visibility for this.
It is public and it is, or could be, of value to others.

Cheers, Peter

From: "olivier.dubuisson at orange.com<mailto:olivier.dubuisson at orange.com>" <olivier.dubuisson at orange.com<mailto:olivier.dubuisson at orange.com>>
Organization: Orange
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 1:36 AM
To: Peter Shames <peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov<mailto:peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov>>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: OID repository: Question from a user

Hi,

I've updated the description of your OID at
https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://oid-info.com/get/1.3.112.4__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cuBI_mBF0B9Y8UF5gp3N2lKCCahRYAUWZfTVZQsgf9ACgpqs2HL-cDU7PTvAFF9DpfVhQPQ1$<https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/oid-info.com/get/1.3.112.4__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cuBI_mBF0B9Y8UF5gp3N2lKCCahRYAUWZfTVZQsgf9ACgpqs2HL-cDU7PTvAFF9DpfVhQPQ1$> <https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/oid-info.com/get/1.3.112.4__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!a9ORvqdJWwag-cdrWvdRHi4QIUshrQVCXBivv_myv3nY9x6gxxmZ48zT0szYylQTlSAF6Qfk$>
You can Modify this
OID<https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/www.oid-info.com/cgi-bin/manage?oid=1.3.112.4&a=modify__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!a9ORvqdJWwag-cdrWvdRHi4QIUshrQVCXBivv_myv3nY9x6gxxmZ48zT0szYylQTlatOpQTN$>
at any time.

We don't have a resolution system per se which could be interconnected
with other resolution systems. But you can submit a large set of OIDs
in an XML file as explained at
https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://www.oid-info.com/submit.htm__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cuBI_mBF0B9Y8UF5gp3N2lKCCahRYAUWZfTVZQsgf9ACgpqs2HL-cDU7PTvAFF9DpWd0HoGy$<https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/www.oid-info.com/submit.htm__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cuBI_mBF0B9Y8UF5gp3N2lKCCahRYAUWZfTVZQsgf9ACgpqs2HL-cDU7PTvAFF9DpWd0HoGy$> <https://urldefense.us/v3/__http:/www.oid-info.com/submit.htm__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!a9ORvqdJWwag-cdrWvdRHi4QIUshrQVCXBivv_myv3nY9x6gxxmZ48zT0szYylQTlSAEbDrX$>
but we'll implement a tool that will automatically add your OIDs to
our OID repository with a hyperlink to their description in the SANA
registry. (If you have any issue with this, please reply quickly :-) )

Thanks,
OID repository admin

On 14/09/2020 23:55, Shames, Peter M (US 312B) wrote:
Dear OID Admin,

I represent an organization, CCSDS, ISO OID [1.3.112.4].  We, have an
on-line registry called the Space Assigned Numbers Authority (SANA),
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://sanaragistry.org__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cuBI_mBF0B9Y8UF5gp3N2lKCCahRYAUWZfTVZQsgf9ACgpqs2HL-cDU7PTvAFF9Dpa6z3mjL$<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https:/sanaragistry.org__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!cuBI_mBF0B9Y8UF5gp3N2lKCCahRYAUWZfTVZQsgf9ACgpqs2HL-cDU7PTvAFF9Dpa6z3mjL$> <https://urldefense.us/v3/__https:/sanaragistry.org__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!a9ORvqdJWwag-cdrWvdRHi4QIUshrQVCXBivv_myv3nY9x6gxxmZ48zT0szYylQTla2BgFLI$>,
that will accept all CCSDS full OIDs and resolve them to their proper,
lower level,  entries.

How can we connect our registry, which has the ability to do fully
qualified OID resolution, to this tool?   Can we at least put a URL
link to the SANA in the CCSDS "Description" field that shows up on
your pages?  Or is there some other a way to reference this on-line
registry?

Thanks, Peter Shames

________________________________________________________

Peter Shames
CCSDS Systems Engineering Area Director

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 301-490
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

Telephone: +1 818 354-5740,  Fax: +1 818 393-6871

Internet:  Peter.M.Shames at jpl.nasa.gov<mailto:Peter.M.Shames at jpl.nasa.gov>
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