[CESG] Requesting CESG approval to drop the “CMC Poll for Agency Review"

[Barkley, Erik J (US 343J)]

Simon,

Overall, I am sympathetic to the idea.  But I am curious if you propose some sort of mechanics or process should an agency "not forward the proposed document for review within their agency".  Will this necessarily be conveyed to the CCSDS Secretariat?  In the past, during agency reviews, the Secretariat (read Tom Gannett) used to keep track of the agency review coordinators and would send out email reminders etc. that the agency review is coming to an end and that they need to supply any RIDs from the particular agency back to the overall review coordinator, etc.  Presumably in this case where the agency refuses to review the book, should there be some sort of rejection notice at the level of the agency back to the overall review coordinator? And if there are multiple agencies that reject the review then what is the point of the agency review? It may be that there is in fact some value in running the CMC review in parallel with the CESG review. Presumably with the CMC (and therefore the head of delegation for the agency) approving the agency review there then should not be downstream agency rejection of the review. I do wonder about this – more to the point, I have to wonder if CESG will be seen as sufficiently "authoritative" in launching agency reviews.

Best regards,
-Erik

From: CESG <cesg-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org> On Behalf Of Singh, Somendra {Simon} (GSFC-5340) via CESG
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 07:59
To: CESG Mailing List <cesg at mailman.ccsds.org>; Oliver, Brian H. (HQ-CG000)[Agile Decision Sciences] <brian.h.oliver at nasa.gov>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [CESG] Requesting CESG approval to drop the “CMC Poll for Agency Review"

Dear All,

This is request to get CESG approval to drop the “CMC Poll for Agency Review”. If CESG agrees then we will send a similar request to CMC as well. I believe that there is general acceptance to the proposal, but this email is trying to move forward in a formal way.

Brian,
I am not sure if this needs to go out as formal poll request, but In case it does, can you please initiate the request. Thanks

Following screen shot provides the process we intend to follow .

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Following screenshot shows the abstraction of current process and the “processing step (CMC Poll for Agency Review)” this request is seeking to drop.

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Best regards
Simon Singh
CCSDS SOIS Area Director
CCSDS SOIS-AP WG Chair
NASA/GSFC DTN Systems Engineer
443 538 7176 c


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