[CESG] Draft new reporting template

Tue Aug 4 01:59:44 EDT 2026

Hi Tomaso,

Thanks very much for the thorough review. I have included some answers below.

Cheers
Daniel

ESA – European Space Agency
Dr. Daniel Fischer (he/him) I  Lead Ground Systems Engineering Architect
Ground Segment Engineering and Innovation Department
Directorate of Operations
ESOC I Robert-Bosch-Str. 5, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
Tel: +49 6151 902718
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From: Tomaso.deCola at dlr.de <Tomaso.deCola at dlr.de>
Sent: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 18:12
To: Daniel Fischer <Daniel.Fischer at esa.int>; cesg at mailman.ccsds.org
Subject: RE: Draft new reporting template

Hello Daniel,

In general I find the new template much nicer and more effective than the previous one. I’ve only a few remarks/comments:

  1.  Slides 2: it provides an outline of the presentation, but I don’t find it necessary.
DF: OK. If it does not hurt, I would keep it anyhow since we may need to stack presentations together for a full report and then this is a good separator.

  1.  Slide 4: statistics. Personally I’d be more in favour of keeping it at the very beginning before starting the reporting at area and WG level, just to show immediately the level of participation. Another remark here, typically these statistics are provided by Brian in dedicated slides. The figures appearing there obviously include only the participation onsite, while we should include the remote as well. As such, it would be good that Brian shares editable histograms, otherwise we have to recreate the statistics or add a note stating that other xxx persons attended remotely.
DF: Agreed. I will check with Brian. He should provide the figure and we just insert it. I have also moved it back up.

  1.  Slide 5: one slide per WG, though addressing only the key points, can be tricky in some cases. For instance in DTN we have 6-7 books in parallel and condensing the key points in one slide can be hard, though not impossible.
DF: My opinion is that it is important to be able to tell the status of a WG in one slide (and not overload it as well). This can mean, as per your example, if you have 6-7 books, you may have to choose which of them are most relevant rather than being totally exhaustive (for that we have the detailed report).  I find this very important for an executive summary, because management and stakeholders are interested in the key points only.

  1.  Slide 7: concerning the resolutions do we mean only those to be directly raised and discussed at CESG/CMC for decision, or also those that will happen in the following 6 months (as it was in the previous template)?
DF: Agreed. I have duplicated the template slide. Now there is one for immediate resolutions, ready to be voted upon, and one for projected resolutions within the next six months.

  1.  Slide 8: personally I liked the “offline” project planning, as it gives to CMC and the rest of the CESG colleagues a clear picture of where we stand and how much is missing for the ongoing books and the possible plan for the draft ones. By simply putting the link to CWE, honestly speaking, I don’t know how many of the CMC people will really be brave enough to go to CWE and check the info available there. Moreover, plan for draft projects agreed during the meeting may not be already resulted in draft projects in CWE.
DF: This is a point we should discuss in the intermediate telco. I can see both sides as relevant (reporting on slides vs being efficient and refer to the CWE). Let’s discuss it. Maybe we can ask Brian to provide an export function that we can then just paste into the slides.

  1.  General comment (for confirmation and common understanding): my understanding is that as we are doing now we present all WGs one after another, each with respect to progress, resolution, project planning.  That means we are not going to present first all WGs with respect to the progress, then all again with respect to resolutions, etc.
DF: Yes, this is correct. My opinion is that this is more structured. But I am open to discuss obviously, its just a proposal.

Regards,

Tomaso

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Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2026 12:08 PM
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Subject: [CESG] Draft new reporting template

Dear all,

I have started drafting the new reporting template for the Area reports. It’s based on the new CCSDS PPT template that Amber has worked on.

[pptx icon]Updated AD Report Template _ Draft 1.pptx<https://spacecomm.sharepoint.com/:p:/r/sites/CESG/Shared%20Documents/CWE%20Private/Meetings/2026%20Fall%20Meeting,%20Matera,%20Italy/CESG%20Meetings/Updated%20AD%20Report%20Template%20_%20Draft%201.pptx?d=we7870d897b614ce6b9e42fa22b4af5ae&csf=1&web=1&e=w9f1H5>

Please insert your suggestions and comments directly in the file. Then we can discuss it in our next online meeting so it is ready for the Fall Meetings.

Cheers
Daniel

ESA – European Space Agency
Dr. Daniel Fischer (he/him) I  Lead Ground Systems Engineering Architect
Ground Segment Engineering and Innovation Department
Directorate of Operations
ESOC I Robert-Bosch-Str. 5, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
Tel: +49 6151 902718
Daniel.Fischer at esa.int<mailto:Daniel.Fischer at esa.int>   I   www.esa.int<http://www.esa.int/>

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