[Sls-sea-dls] RE: SDLS BB : proposal for PS comments dispositions

Daniel.Fischer at esa.int Daniel.Fischer at esa.int
Mon Aug 24 08:15:10 UTC 2015


Dear all,

The BB will be revised only after 5 years once it has been published.
Thus, putting a statement like "Implementation of the services necessary 
to manage the parameters contained in the SA data base is a 
mission-specific function.  Service directives for managing the SA 
parameters in-line will be specified in a CCSDS recommendation currently 
under development (355.1-B: SDLS Extended Procedures)." seems a bit odd. I 
would formulate it more "timeless".
Maybe something like  "Implementation of the services necessary to manage 
the parameters contained in the SA data base is a mission-specific 
function.  Service directives for managing the SA parameters in-line are 
specified in the SDLS Extended Procedures CCSDS recommendation (reference 
355.1-B: SDLS Extended Procedures).  At the time of publication of this 
document, the Extended Procedures book is still under development ." 

Furthermore, I agree with Ignacios statement regarding Section 6.1. 
Unspecified ins better. It may also be worth to add a reference to Section 
3.4.1.

Cheers,
Daniel


Dr. Daniel Fischer
----------------------------
Data Systems Manager
Ground Systems Engineering Support Office
Ground Systems Engineering Department
Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations

European Space Agency - ESOC
Robert-Bosch-Str. 5
D-64293 Darmstadt - Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 6151 90 2718 - Fax: +49 (0) 6151 90 2718
Web: http://www.esa.int



From:   Ignacio Aguilar Sanchez/estec/ESA
To:     "Biggerstaff, Craig (JSC-CD221)[LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP]" 
<craig.biggerstaff at nasa.gov>, 
Cc:     "Daniel.Fischer at esa.int" <Daniel.Fischer at esa.int>, "Moury Gilles" 
<Gilles.Moury at cnes.fr>, "howie.weiss at sparta.com" <howie.weiss at sparta.com>, 
"sls-sea-dls at mailman.ccsds.org" <sls-sea-dls at mailman.ccsds.org>
Date:   24/08/2015 10:00
Subject:        Re: [Sls-sea-dls] RE: SDLS BB : proposal for PS comments 
dispositions


Dear Craig et al,


The proposed update as well as the responses to Peter's comments are 
almost fine with me.

My only problem is adding the word 'unspecified' before 'management' in 
section 6.1. This language is not consistent with the language used with 
the TC, TM and AOS BBs.

We have attempted to harmonise the four standards to the best of our 
ability. Either we state everywhere that the management is not specified 
or we do not. And we do it in the same way.

To be clear, each of the four standards contains a statement in section 
1.2 where the absence of specification for the management activities is 
stated.
The word 'unspecified' does not show up a single time in TC, TM and AOS 
BBs.

In order to avoid additional modifications on TC, TM and AOS BBs to 
achieve full consistency with this topic, I would propose to remove the 
word 'unspecified'.


Kind regards,

Ignacio







From:   "Biggerstaff, Craig (JSC-CD221)[LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP]" 
<craig.biggerstaff at nasa.gov>
To:     "Moury Gilles" <Gilles.Moury at cnes.fr>, 
"Ignacio.Aguilar.Sanchez at esa.int" <Ignacio.Aguilar.Sanchez at esa.int>, 
"Daniel.Fischer at esa.int" <Daniel.Fischer at esa.int>, 
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Date:   21/08/2015 22:55
Subject:        [Sls-sea-dls] RE: SDLS BB : proposal for PS comments 
dispositions
Sent by:        sls-sea-dls-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org



Dear WG members,
 
Gilles, thank you for adding in the proposed dispositions for Peter 
Shames.
 
I have added the NOTE to section 1.1 to answer Tomaso de Cola?s and Keith 
Scott?s conditions, updated figures 2-4,5-1,5-2,5-3, and made one or two 
minor alterations to the proposed language to avoid an implicit dependency 
of 355.0 upon 355.1.  If these changes meet with the WG?s satisfaction, I 
will forward them to Peter for his review and cc Tom Gannett per the 
conditional approval procedures.
 
Best regards,
 
 
 
 
Craig
 
From: Moury Gilles [mailto:Gilles.Moury at cnes.fr] 
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 11:07 AM
To: Biggerstaff, Craig (JSC-CD221)[LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP]; 
Ignacio.Aguilar.Sanchez at esa.int; Daniel.Fischer at esa.int; 
howie.weiss at sparta.com
Cc: sls-sea-dls at mailman.ccsds.org; sls-sea-dls-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org
Subject: SDLS BB : proposal for PS comments dispositions
 
Dear SDLS WG members,
 
Please find attached a redline version of the SDLS BB with proposed 
dispositions for Peter Shames comments (in line with my herebelow mail). 
The text modifications are tentatively justified wrt Peter?s comment. We 
should converge internally to the WG before sending the proposed redline 
to Peter Shames. Craig, as technical editor of the book, could you please 
take the lead on this ? I am leaving for one week so will not be able to 
make any progress.
 
Best regards,
Gilles
 
Gilles MOURY 
SDLS WG Co-Chair 
De : sls-sea-dls-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org [
mailto:sls-sea-dls-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org] De la part de Moury Gilles
Envoyé : mercredi 19 août 2015 15:45
À : Daniel.Fischer at esa.int; Ignacio.Aguilar.Sanchez at esa.int
Cc : sls-sea-dls at mailman.ccsds.org; sls-sea-dls-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org
Objet : RE: [Sls-sea-dls] results of CESG poll for SDLS BB publication
 
Dear Daniel, Ignacio and SDLS WG members,
 
I concur with Ignacio and Daniel proposals for Peter?s comments 
disposition. More specifically, taking Peter?s comments one by one (I 
attach Peter?s commented version for reference):
 
P 1-1 : OK for the 2 comments
 
P 1-3, 3-1 : The usage of the term Payload: this term is duly defined 
upfront in SDLS book and therefore this definition replaces the CCSDS 
generic definition in the context of SDLS.  The term is used consistently 
throughout the document. Besides the term payload is widely used with that 
meaning in the COMSEC domain. I agree with Ignacio and Daniel that we 
should discuss this with Peter and advocate for keeping this term. 
 
P 2-1 : Comment not understood. To be discussed with Peter. In any case we 
can remove the parenthesis in the note if that causes problem.
 
P 2-2 : I do not support inserting in SDLS a duplicate of figures 6-1 of 
TM, TC and AOS books, but we could simply refer/point to it respectively 
in sections 2.2.3, 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 with a statement like: ?the structure 
of the TM/TC/AOS Transfer Frame with SDLS is given in Figure 6-1 of 
[1]/[2]/[3]. This statement could also be placed once in section 2.3.1.4 
Security Header and Trailer.
 
P 2-5 : Figure 2-4 : we need to change A and B to AOS ApplySecurity 
payload or return (instead of TM ApplySecurity ?)
 
P2-8, 4-9, 4-12 : NOTE on sequence number rollover : I would suggest 
keeping the NOTE but limiting it to the first sentence (The interpretation 
of a sequence number rollover (to zero) is mission specific) and then 
pointing to a specific SDLS green book subsection where this is discussed 
in more details. This would avoid confusion for implementers making it 
clear there is no specific recommendation (should) or permission (may) for 
that subject in the Blue Book.
 
P 3-7, 3-10 : SA management service: I would propose keeping subsection 
3.4.2 intact (SA management service parameters). Replace the NOTE in 3.4.3 
(SA management service directives) by : ?The directives for SA management 
will be specified in a CCSDS recommendation currently under development 
(355.1-B: SDLS extended procedures).? To be coherent with that, I would 
replace the second sentence of subsection 3.4.1 by: ?The service 
directives necessary
to manage the SA parameters will be specified in a CCSDS recommendation 
currently under development (355.1-B: SDLS extended procedures)?. As 
suggested by Daniel, we could add a column in table 6-1 to indicate the 
correspondence between parameters denomination in subsection 3.4.2 and in 
Table 6-1.
 
P 5-1: Peters comment: (no mention of payload in that section 5 ?Use of 
the services with CCSDS protocols?). I would propose to show the 
?ApplySecurity payload? in figures 5-1 (TM transfer frame), 5-2 (TC), 5-3 
(AOS).
 
P 6-1 : OK to add unspecified (an unspecified management system). For the 
second comment (abstract SA data base) I tend to agree with Daniel, the SA 
data base is not abstract . It has to be implemented both on-ground and 
on-board.
 
P B-1 : OK to replace ?user-supplied data unit? by ?transfer frame data 
field? to make it unambiguous.
 
 
I hope we can converge with Peter on commonly agreed dispositions. We need 
to consolidate first our WG responses to his comments. Craig : let us know 
your position wrt the comments, so we can produce a redline version of the 
document with our proposed dispositions and associated explanations 
inserted.
 
Best regards,
 
Gilles
 
Gilles MOURY 
CNES Toulouse 
De : Daniel.Fischer at esa.int [mailto:Daniel.Fischer at esa.int] 
Envoyé : jeudi 13 août 2015 14:51
À : Ignacio.Aguilar.Sanchez at esa.int
Cc : Moury Gilles; sls-sea-dls at mailman.ccsds.org; 
sls-sea-dls-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org
Objet : Re: [Sls-sea-dls] results of CESG poll for SDLS BB publication
 
Dear Igancio and all, 

I checked the comments as well. I agree to all you say below and I have a 
few more remarks/ first thoughts based on the comments that Peter put 
in-line in the document. 

1) The word payload: While of course it has different meanings, the term 
"payload"  is very well established in the communication protocol world. 
You can find the following definition e.g. on Wikipedia: Payload in 
computing (sometimes referred to as the actual or body data) is the cargo 
of a data transmission. It is the part of the transmitted data which is 
the fundamental purpose of the transmission, to the exclusion of 
information sent with it (such as headers ormetadata, sometimes referred 
to as overhead data) solely to facilitate delivery. 

2) Regarding the inline comments: 
P 1-1: I am not sure about both comments. Is this section not a standard 
CCSDS section? It reads like one. If yes, I would not bother modifying it. 

P 1-3: See payload discussion 
P 2-1: I am not sure I understand the comment. We simply state that SDLS 
is not associated with any other protocol and as an example we bring the 
SPP. This may be a misunderstanding. Perhaps Peter confuses an association 
with another protocol (e.g. for extended procedures) with the concept of 
the underlying data-link layer protocol(s). If this causes too much 
discussion, we could even remove the note. 
P 2-2: Following up on Ignacios comments, i would not include too much 
additional information here. We have the Green Book for that. Also, the 
other SLS books that have been updated mention SDLS and how it fits in as 
well. 
P 2-8: OK, I can see where he is coming from regarding the comment on the 
counter rollover. However, I think the note is pretty clear on this by 
saying the interpretation is mission-specific. We could think about being 
more concrete on this in the Green Book (if this is not already the case) 
and explain the benefits of not rolling over and how this can related to 
key lifetime. 
P 3-7/3-10: I dont think that this section is an issue. Regarding the 
parameters, I think together with Section 6 (Managed Parameters) it makes 
sense to have them defined here. The only think that I agree may cause 
confusion is the paramater naming. E.g: Section 3.4.2.2 says 
"SA_authentication_key" while Section 6 says "Authentication Key". Maybe 
we could add a column to the table on Section 6, referring to the names 
used in Section 3.4.2.2. Regarding Section 3.4.3, I would almost be 
tempted to remove the Section from the standard (it is empty and the note 
will be out of date once the extended procedures...which are not a 
"revision" of the SDLS standard, but an addon...are out. We could pick 
this up in the Green Book. 
P 6-1: (1) Not sure why we should add "unspecified". Did he want to say 
st. like "not covered by this standard?"...TBD (2) The SA database is not 
abstract. In fact it has to be very concrete if you want to do an 
implementation. Our prototype has one. 

3) I think we should seek to have telcon with Peter not too far in the 
future to discuss his comments and not wait three months for the next 
meetings. This way, we could speed up the publication process a bit. What 
do you think? 

Cheers 
Daniel


Dr. Daniel Fischer
----------------------------
Data Systems Manager
Ground Systems Engineering Support Office
Ground Systems Engineering Department
Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations

European Space Agency - ESOC
Robert-Bosch-Str. 5
D-64293 Darmstadt - Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 6151 90 2718 - Fax: +49 (0) 6151 90 2718
Web: http://www.esa.int 



From:        Ignacio.Aguilar.Sanchez at esa.int 
To:        Moury Gilles <Gilles.Moury at cnes.fr>, 
Cc:        "sls-sea-dls at mailman.ccsds.org" <sls-sea-dls at mailman.ccsds.org> 

Date:        13/08/2015 13:35 
Subject:        Re: [Sls-sea-dls] results of CESG poll for SDLS BB 
publication 
Sent by:        sls-sea-dls-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org 




Dear Gilles and colleagues,

I believe the comment from Tomaso, supported by Keith, is easy to deal 
with
the inclusion of such note.

Concerning Peter's comments,

1) We all agreed and supported harmonisation of the SDLS with the SLPs, 
Part
of the agreement was the assumption that the potential user shall start
reading the SLPs before getting to the SDLS (since it is a NEW optional 
SLP
function). And we (SLP WG + SDLS WG) were very careful in deciding what to
put where. This can explain why the SDLS does not read so well 
stand-alone,
as Peter seems to want.
Including the three different scenarios (TC, TM, AOS) with corresponding
drawings into the SDLS will substantially  'inflate' the introduction.
And will risk causing incoherency issues with the SLPs and the still-to-be
published SDLS Green Book.

I think the issue needs to be re-discussed with Peter since the drawings 
are
already at the documents where they are supposed to be.

2) The word 'payload' is mentioned 72 times in the document. The last 
mention
is in paragraph B1.1, which is perhaps the one that I can see somewhat
inconsistent but it should be easy to fix. Hence, I beg to disagree with
Peter concerning inconsistency in its use. A different thing is whether
another term could be used to avoid confusion with the classical meaning 
of
payload in space missions but I think the meaning in SDLS is pretty clear 
and
defined. On his proposals "package" looks too close to "packet" and "user
provided data" too close to "service data unit" (note that the 'payload' 
as
in SDLS context includes the SDU and something else, hence not a valid
substitute).

Unless someone finds a clear and unambiguous term to replace 'payload' in 
the
SDLS context, I would advocate to re-discuss the comment with Peter.


3) If the document has to be self-standing concerning its interpretation,
this is definitely a section that I think should stay. It is addressing a
core element of the SDLS. The Green Book will provide further elaboration 
but
a bare minimum is needed to be able to understand and interpret SDLS.

4) There are three NOTES covering this issue that are consistent. I think 
we
did not want to impose requirements in this subject, reason why they are
notes. But we could change it to requirements with the word 'may' to make
them more visible as suggested by Peter.

I hope the above helps.

Kind regards,

Ignacio



From:                 Moury Gilles <Gilles.Moury at cnes.fr>
To:                 "sls-sea-dls at mailman.ccsds.org" <
sls-sea-dls at mailman.ccsds.org>
Date:                 13/08/2015 11:01
Subject:                 [Sls-sea-dls] results of CESG poll for SDLS BB 
publication
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Dear CCSDS SDLS WG member,

Please find attached 2 files:

The results of the CESG poll (as of today ? it terminates tomorrow)
The commented version of the SDLS Blue Book attached to the comments of 
Peter
Shames (SEA AD)

We have to respond to those comments and resolve them with the issuer 
before
we can actually publish the BB. Please advise on the way to respond to 
those
comments.

Best regards,

Gilles MOURY
SDLS WG Co-Chair
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