[CMC] Rough, unofficial CESG "top 10" highlights from Athens

[Adrian J. Hooke]

The CESG met for a couple of hours last Friday meeting to summarize the 
major points from the week of meetings in Athens. Formal and complete Area 
Reports and resolutions should be available by 13 May. Meanwhile, here is a 
quick and completely unofficial personal summary of the highlights, which I 
gleaned from my notes. This summary is presented as preliminary information 
only and corrections by the Area Directors are welcome, if I missed or 
misrepresented anything.

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1. The CSS Service Management Red Book schedule cannot be maintained unless 
the continued support of Paula Quintela is guaranteed.

2. The SOIS "TCONS" and "Bus-LAN" Working Groups have been suspended 
indefinitely by the Area Director, pending an in-depth Area-level review of 
the reasons for their slow progress.

3. The SIS Space Packet Protocol WG, the SIS Unacknowledged CFDP Extensions 
WG, and the SIS DTN-BOF have all completed their work and are closing down.

4. The SIS Cislunar Working Group seriously needs some support outside of 
NASA, in particular by the ESA Aurora program.

5. The SLS "new codes" (LDPCC) BOF has failed to reach agreement on needs 
and requirements as has been dissolved.

6. The Prox-1 Build 2 Working Group is deadlocked over a BNSC/JPL 
disagreement about the performance effects of symbol-to-symbol jitter 
specification. Both sides are to prove their performance claims.

7. We need to find a mechanism to disseminate the new Data Compression (and 
other) reference software. The "Open Channel Foundation" 
http://www.openchannelfoundation.org should be explored.

8. The Systems Engineering Area Director is "deeply troubled" by what he 
considers to be the unprecedented termination of the Systems Architecture 
Working Group.

9. There is concern that locking our meeting cycle to the OMG's results in 
an uneven working cycle for CCSDS. Approximately 50% of the SLS WGs will 
not meet in Atlanta.

10. The presentation of content on the CCSDS website needs major work, and 
we need a training session on the CWE.

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Best regards
Adrian

Adrian J. Hooke
Chairman, CCSDS Engineering Steering Group (CESG) 
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