[CMC] Review of CCSDS documents with CCSDS and ISO

[Adrian J. Hooke]

At 06:03 AM 9/28/2005, Eduardo W. Bergamini wrote:
>A little further, in our pondering. CAST is already an Observer agency to 
>CCSDS.

Peter's point is that since China does not have a *Member* agency then we 
cannot hope to get any "formal agency reviews" from them during the CCSDS 
development process. That leaves us exposed to a disruptive change if the 
first time that China does a formal review is when the CCSDS document 
arrives for their approval as an ISO standard.

I suggest that the CMC should:

1. First act upon Peter's proposed resolution by deciding if China is now a 
sufficiently important space power that we feel that a formal Chinese 
review is essential before we approve a CCSDS standard.

2. If we agree that this is necessary and that we need a Chinese Member in 
CCSDS, then we should study in depth *which* Chinese agency should be 
approached. Section 3 of the CCSDS Procedures Manual 
http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/A00x0y9.pdf defines the 
participation requirements. The section states that Agencies should submit 
a *petition* to become a Member but it does not say that the CMC cannot 
invite an Agency to submit such a petition.

/// Adrian

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