From tomg at aiaa.org Tue Jan 11 15:56:16 2011
From: tomg at aiaa.org (CCSDS Rapporteur)
Date: Tue Jan 11 15:39:51 2011
Subject: [CMC Alert] CCSDS Review of CCSDS 873.0-R-2,
SOIS File and Packet Store Services
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Control Number: RP 11-01
The following draft CCSDS Recommended Practice has been placed on
line for CCSDS Agency review:
CCSDS 873.0-R-2. Spacecraft Onboard Interface Services--
File and Packet Store Services. Red Book.
January 2011.
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: This draft Recommended Practice defines the
Spacecraft Onboard Interface Services (SOIS) File and Packet Store
Services (FPSS). The definition encompasses specification of the
service interface exposed to onboard software (user applications and
libraries) as well as the conceptual mapping of the FPSS primitives
to the protocols implementing such services. The current issue
expands on the original issue and incorporates comments received in
the first review.
The due date for receipt of Agency review comments by the Review
Coordinator is 2011-3-31. More information is available at the Web
site identified below.
The review document, in Portable Document Format (PDF), and
associated review materials are available for downloading at the
following location:
http://public.ccsds.org/review/
REMINDER: Agency Heads of Delegation are to make their own
arrangements for review participation by their Agency-sponsored Associates.
NOTE: Per CMC Action Item CMC-A-2007-10-05, agency reviewers are
reminded to review for compliance with the CCSDS Publications Manual
as well as technical content.
From tomg at aiaa.org Wed Jan 12 14:51:17 2011
From: tomg at aiaa.org (CCSDS Secretariat)
Date: Wed Jan 12 14:34:56 2011
Subject: [CMC Alert] New CMC Poll
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From NickT at aiaa.org Wed Jan 12 17:06:55 2011
From: NickT at aiaa.org (Nick Tongson)
Date: Wed Jan 12 16:50:27 2011
Subject: [CMC Alert] New CMC Poll
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Dear CMC members,
A new CMC poll has been posted to the CWE:
- CMC-P-2011-01-002 Approval to Appoint New Area Director for SLS (Space Link Services).
The closure date for this poll is 27 January 2011.
This poll can be accessed via the following link:
http://public.ccsds.org/sites/cwe/cmc/polls/default.aspx
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From mike.kearney at nasa.gov Mon Jan 24 15:10:32 2011
From: mike.kearney at nasa.gov (Kearney, Mike W. (MSFC-EO01))
Date: Mon Jan 24 14:54:25 2011
Subject: [CMC Alert] RE: New CMC Poll - REMINDER
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From mike.kearney at nasa.gov Tue Jan 25 18:01:05 2011
From: mike.kearney at nasa.gov (Kearney, Mike W. (MSFC-EO01))
Date: Tue Jan 25 17:45:10 2011
Subject: [CMC Alert] CMC SPECIAL TELECON - Standardization of Patented
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From ccsds_techsupport at aiaa.org Wed Jan 26 07:07:27 2011
From: ccsds_techsupport at aiaa.org (ccsds techsupport)
Date: Wed Jan 26 06:51:19 2011
Subject: [CMC Alert] New CMC Poll - Approval of Changes to 5.02 Space Link
Coding and Synchronization Working Group Charter and New Projects
References:
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Dear CMC members,
A new CMC poll has been posted to the CWE:
- CMC-P-2011-01-003 Approval of Changes to 5.02 Space Link Coding and Synchronization Working Group Charter and New Projects
The closure date for this poll is 10 February 2011.
This poll can be accessed via the following link:
http://public.ccsds.org/sites/cwe/cmc/polls/default.aspx
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From jaxa.ccsds at jaxa.jp Wed Jan 26 20:51:27 2011
From: jaxa.ccsds at jaxa.jp (JAXA CCSDS Secretary Office)
Date: Wed Jan 26 20:32:21 2011
Subject: [CMC Alert] CMC SPECIAL TELECON - Standardization of
PatentedTechnologies
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Dear Mr. Mike Kearny and CMC members,
I confirmed the schedule.
Mr. Tsutomu Shigeta of JAXA will participate the telecon.
Best regards,
N.Nomura
JAXA CCSDS Secretariat
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From: "Kearney, Mike W. (MSFC-EO01)"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 8:01 AM
Subject: [CMC Alert] CMC SPECIAL TELECON - Standardization of
PatentedTechnologies
Dear CMC Members: I apologize in advance for this long email, but we have
some complex issues that need CMC attention very soon.
MANAGEMENT SUMMARY - CCSDS Issues have arisen concerning:
(1) CCSDS/ISO process for standardizing patented technologies;
(2) the potential for CCSDS personnel to be in real or perceived Conflict
Of Interest (COI) situations when making decisions about the international
standardization of technologies that are covered by patents.
We discussed (1) in our London meeting in the context of current CCSDS
Channel Coding issues. In subsequent discussions, it has become apparent
that issue (2) must be addressed as we make decisions on (1). For both of
these issues, management decisions must be made by the CMC before the CCSDS
teams can take further action.
This is a time-critical discussion because it may hold up work on all three
candidates for new channel coding standards which are encumbered by patents.
Therefore I propose that we schedule a special CMC telecon, dedicated to
this topic, at 12:00 UTC on 10 February 2011. (Reminder - we have a
general CMC telecon scheduled for 5/6 April 2011). I will send out an
Outlook calendar item very soon, with logistical details (phone and WebEx
information).
DETAILS:
The objective of the teleconference is to conduct CMC discussions and
decisions concerning the standardization of patented technology. Generally,
this has not been an issue for CCSDS in the past - the only previous
instance that I am aware of was the adoption of Turbo Codes in the Channel
Coding and Synchronization Blue Book (circa 1999), which required
negotiation of a license from France Telecom. However, that occurred well
before the new procedures that were adopted during the CCSDS restructuring
in 2004.
As you will no doubt remember from the CMC (and IOAG) meetings in London, we
are now facing three new instances where technologies that are protected by
patents are being proposed for international standardization: these are (a)
Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coding; (b) Serial Concatenated
Convolutional Coding (SCCC), and; (c) the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-S)
standard. At the November meeting, ESA raised the SCCC patent issue by
requesting a CMC vote to advance the SCCC document to Agency review without
considering a need for advance review of a licensing agreement for its
operational use.
Secretariat research has revealed that since we forward our standards track
documents to ISO as SC13 documents, we must comply with ISO guidelines for
standardizing patented technology. These guidelines are attached in PDF
form. The bottom line requirement of their process is that CCSDS/SC13
needs to submit a ISO Licensing Declaration Form (also attached in DOC
form) for each patent that encumbers a CCSDS Recommended Standard that is
advanced to ISO. The joint patent policy of ISO, IEC and ITU is available
at:
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/fetch/2000/2122/3770791/customview.html?func=ll&objId=3770791&objAction=browse.
ISO's legal office has stated quite clearly that SC13 is required to follow
those guidelines, and to submit the license declaration form when needed.
This is requested by ISO "early in the standards development process", so we
are already very late on this for some of the new candidate channel codes.
Note that current CCSDS rules require that licenses must be demonstrated to
be "fair and non-discriminatory": instead of "fair and non-discriminatory",
ISO uses "reasonable and non-discriminatory". CCSDS may want to consider
changing to that definition, since SC13 is apparently already bound by those
terms.
The main issue here is the universal requirement that the patent holder must
be willing to negotiate licenses on a non-discriminatory basis, either free
or on reasonable terms and conditions. (Note that CCSDS already has this
requirement in its operating procedures.) Clearly, the CMC will need to
determine whether or not these conditions will be met by each proposed
licensor, and it is here that interpretation may be difficult. Some
proposed licenses have statements to the effect that royalty-free use will
be granted for the "peaceful, scientific and non-commercial exploration of
space". However, they are mute in terms of whether a license will be
granted to other users (such as military applications, commercial space
operators or the industrial supplier community) and if so what the terms
will be. Since CCSDS has Observers and Associates as part of the
organization who may fall into the latter categories, does the CMC have an
obligation to get an assurance from the licensor that a license will be
granted to all users on non-discriminatory basis, and also to require
disclosure of the proposed terms of the license to the CMC so that we can be
sure that they will be "reasonable"? For instance, if a license would be
granted "free" to a CCSDS Member agency for space exploration use, but a
military Observer agency or commercial Associate would be charged a very
large fee (or even refused), would that be "fair and non-discriminatory"?
Moving on to issue (2), in the process of researching the SCCC patent issue
in terms of CCSDS procedures, the Secretariat noted that all three codes are
encumbered by Intellectual Property (IP) claims. The basic situation is
that:
* Caltech ( which manages JPL) owns a patent related to the LDPC
codes
* Caltech owns a patent related to the SCCC codes and has assigned
its rights to a 3rd party
* ESA owns two patents related to the SCCC
* Those same two ESA patents are also a part of the DVB-S patent
pool
By adopting any or all of these candidate technologies as CCSDS/ISO
standards, it is likely that the "value" of those patents will grow and
therefore the potential monetary return from licenses may be increased. It
is therefore important that CCSDS should use the most thorough and impartial
processes to reach standardization decisions.
Clearly, making the "fair/reasonable and non-discriminatory" determination
requires professional judgment from CESG and CMC members. Since ESA and
Caltech own IP rights associated with the candidate codes, it is conceivable
that some members of the CESG and the CMC may appear to have a
Conflict-Of-Interest (COI) between their duties as CCSDS decision-makers and
the financial interests of their employers. In this case, the CMC should
review the professional implications of this situation and determine if new
ethical rules should be developed to guide CCSDS decision-makers concerning
their fiduciary duties to CCSDS and ISO when making determinations about the
"fair and non-discriminatory" terms of proposed licenses.
In the process of resolving these issues for the new CCSDS channel codes, it
is strongly recommended that the CMC should use this as a test-case for
establishing a permanent CCSDS policy that governs (a) any additional CCSDS
requirements associated with the standardization of patented technology and
(b) how potential conflicts of interest will be declared and resolved.
CONCLUSION:
Those are the issues that we need to discuss during the proposed telecon.
If you have strong or critical interest in the topic, I encourage you to
"reply all" to this email with your position, in advance of the telecon, so
that the telecon can be productive. I will prepare a presentation for the
telecon that hits on the above points and tries to focus us on the necessary
decisions.
Best Regards,
-=- Mike
Mike Kearney
CCSDS Chairman and General Secretary
www.ccsds.org
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