[CMC] OMG DSTF - Anaheim MoM

[Nestor.Peccia at esa.int]

FYI

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Two special events were hosted by the OMG SDTF in Anaheim.  The Space
Information Day
which we hold periodically to generate interest in SDTF work was held on
Tuesday with
attendance of about 30 and a group of excellent speakers.  Most of the
presentations
will be in the OMG member documents area in space/ by next week.

An XTCE Tutorial was held Wednesday morning and a birds-of-a-feather was held
Thursday
morning.  Most of those interested attended both sessions.  Boeing and
Northrop Grumman
(spacecraft & payload vendors) were both represented and are in various
stages of of
implementing XTCE-based documents for several programs.  There was an
excellent sharing
of practical experience and some commitments to continue exchange of ideas
and possibly
validation/report/editing tools via the www.xtce.org web page and/or future
SDTF meetings.

We had hoped to publish the 1.1 revision of the XTCE specification after the
Architecture
Board meeting Thursday afternoon, however, the AB felt that our final report
did not
adequately capture the issue resolution history and associated revisions.  It
is important
that the final report provided this visibility to the AB and to users of the
specification
when the revision is published.  The AB expressed no technical reservations
with the
revisions, so the RTF was re-chartered by the DTC with a new final report
date of Nov 13,
for another shot at the December 7, 2006 AB meeting.  There is no intent to
accept new
issues/revisions (although that is up to the RTF), just finish dotting i's
and crossing t's
in the final report.

The actual business meeting for the SDTF was brief, due to the other
activities scheduled.
No new RFP's were issued, and the submissions to active RFP's are not due
until future
meetings.  Brad Kizzort of Harris Corporation and Rob Andzik of RT Logic were
voted in as
co-chairs.

The SDTF extends its thanks to outgoing chairman, Gerry Simon.  Gerry was
instrumental in
getting the XTCE specification published, accomplished a great deal of work
in the
1.1 revision, and in the cooperative effort to incorporate the CCSDS comments
on XTCE so
that the CCSDS can accept and promote the specification within its member
agencies. Gerry
has changed his employment to a company that is not currently a member of
OMG, but we are
hoping he will be back in the SDTF soon, bringing his new employer with him.