[CMC] Review of CCSDS documents with CCSDS and ISO

[Eduardo W. Bergamini]

Review of CCSDS documents with CCSDS and ISOPeter,

In my opinion, you have made a very good point for consideration by CCSDS. China, through CAST, has been an Observer Agency, possibly, since the beginning of CCSDS, or close to it, if I remember. They certainly attended the very first meeting held in Washington D.C., back in January 1982. Adding to your words, it would make sense to me that China may be invited by CCSDS to reconsider its status for becoming a Member. In this case, I do not know if CAST would be the only possibility, for such a possible approach. 

Regards,

Eduardo
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>From CCSDS Web pages for Observer Agencies ...

A CCSDS Observer Agency is a governmental or quasi-governmental organization that participates in CCSDS activities at a reduced level of support. Observer Agencies are encouraged but not expected to make best efforts to ensure the adherence of their agency's internal standards to the applicable CCSDS Recommended Standards.  Observer Agencies are encouraged, but not required, to contribute resources to the working groups. Individuals from the Observer Agencies are invited to participate as technical experts.  There is no limit on the number of national or multinational agencies that may participate as Observer Agencies. 
 
 
Chinese Academy of Space Technology
Heping Zhao 
CCSDS Principal Delegate of CAST 
Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering 
Chinese Academy of Space Technology 
No.82 Zhichun Road 
Beijing 100086 
China

Phone: +86 10 68378567
Fax:+86 10 68378442
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Allan, PM (Peter) 
To: CCSDS Management Council 
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 6:42 AM
Subject: [CMC] Review of CCSDS documents with CCSDS and ISO

I just spent a while explaining to someone from EADS Astrium about how the CCSDS standards development process works and how our recommended standards flow into ISO. He is interested to learn how we do it and how it might help ECSS. He asked what happens once we have conducted our own reviews, published the blue book, sent it to ISO and we get a lot of comments back from the ISO review. (This happens a lot in the analogous ECSS process.) I told him that generally the ISO process does not generate a lot of comments, or when we do expect it to (e.g. OAIS), then we do the CCSDS review and ISO review in parallel.

He then raised the interesting question (which is why I am sending this e-mail) of what we will do in the future as China plays a growing role in space, presumably wanting to use space standards in the process, given that they are not a member of CCSDS, but may well increasingly comment through the ISO process. An obvious answer is to invite them to become members of CCSDS. I am raising this now simply to try to head off any problems that could be caused by a lot of comments through the ISO review process. China has been a low key member of SC13 in the past, but this may not continue in the future.

Peter 
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Dr. Peter M. Allan 
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EDUARDO W. BERGAMINI
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