[CMC E-Poll Alert] Re: Action Required - CMC Review of Proposed Change to the CCSDS Charter

[Adrian J. Hooke]

06:38 AM 8/23/2004, Eduardo Bergamini wrote:
>... and, also, includes further suggestions, which are written in red 
>lettering and expressed in the same file, as attached.

Eduardo: I disagree with your suggested additions for the following reasons:

1. The term "information technology" has a pretty standard definition which 
already covers the split between applications and data communications, 
e.g., try Googling "definition information technology" and you will get 
multiple returns like--
information technology (IT): The branch of technology devoted to (a) the 
study and application of data and the processing thereof; i.e., the 
automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation (including transformation), 
management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, 
transmission or reception of data, and (b) the development and use of the 
hardware, software, firmware, and procedures associated with this processing.

2. Similarly, if you Google "definition interoperability" you get back 
things like:
The ability of information systems to operate in conjunction with each 
other encompassing communication protocols, hardware software, application, 
and data compatibility layers.

3. Conversely, the term "cross-support" is space jargon and nobody 
understands it. Try Googling "definition cross-support" and you mostly get 
CCSDS pages, except for 
http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/woodworking/sewing_steps.phtml 
where a bearded guy is making some wooden steps for his mother.

So I would argue that making those additions in fact makes the CCSDS 
charter less clear, not more. I'd strongly recommend that the CMC should 
simply focus on deleting those four words "for exclusively peaceful 
purposes" and should not take this as an opportunity to open up the whole 
charter for revision.

Best regards
Adrian
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