[CMC] [CESG] CCSDS report to IOAG-11 - Strategic Plan

[Nestor.Peccia at esa.int]

Dear all,

I have been tasked to report in the IOAG on the following item:

NESTOR PECCIA: please consult the ADs and the CMC members and come up with a
recommendation about when and how the Strategic Plan will be updated. (Nestor
will give this report at IOAG-11)

The main comments of the IOAG were as follows:

   it should be more than just a vision. A driver is the development of a
   long term architecture for cross support services
   lack in connections to the forward-looking future of the various space
   agencies
   lack in planning for standards infusion
   lack in enganging members for the infusion of each new recommendation
   how area objectives and goals are ascertained

I believe that Strategic and Operating Plans have to be read together. Both
have to be reworked (not only considering IOAG comments, but internal; CCSDS
discussions)

   Strategic Plan should be updated according to comment 1
   Comment 2 should be discussed with IOAG. Sometimes the forward looking
   future of the Agencies is vague or concentrates in one domain (e.g.
   exploration but not EO)
   Strategic Plan should be updated with omment 3. Input to be provided
   regularly (1 year?) by IOAG
   Comment 4 is an illusion. Take as example the CFDP. No strategic Plan will
   help in the infusion of a new recommendation within an Agency. Paper does
   not help.
   Strategic and Operating Plans should be updated with Comment 5 (after
   discussion with IOAG)

Please let me have your views, such that I can prepare a draft for further
discussions.

ciao
nestor