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Command and Control Message Specification — Closed Issues

  • Acronym: C2MS
  • Issues Count: 14
  • Description: Issues resolved by a task force and approved by Board
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Specify multiplicity for required and optional fields

  • Key: C2MS-62
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Braxton Technologies, LLC ( Gerry Simon)
  • Summary:

    Set the association multiplicity for required fields to '1' and optional fields to '0..1'

  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:37 GMT
  • Disposition: Deferred — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Defer to FTF 1.1

    Received after RFC 4-week deadline.

  • Updated: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 20:50 GMT

Add documentation within the model

  • Key: C2MS-61
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Braxton Technologies, LLC ( Gerry Simon)
  • Summary:

    In the current version of the model, there is no descriptive documentation within the model itself. This could be easily added from the non-normative specification and would aid engineering teams who use the model.

  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:31 GMT
  • Disposition: Deferred — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Defer to FTF 1.1 (But good idea)

    Issue received after the RFC 4 week deadline.

  • Updated: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 20:50 GMT

Archive Mnemonic Value Request comments

  • Key: C2MS-11
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    (Archive Mnemonic Value Request) Section 7.9.1

    • Need official registry for FORMAT values
  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:25 GMT
  • Disposition: Deferred — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue is out of scope of FTF type of work.

    Recommend that this issue be deferred to C2MS ver 1.1.

  • Updated: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 20:50 GMT

C2CX Heartbeat comments

  • Key: C2MS-9
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    (C2CX Heartbeat) Section 7.5.4

    • Suggest not having CPU / Memory utilization in the messages. That would be better implemented through normal system monitoring mechanisms (e.g., SNMP). Code to retrieve such information is typically platform-specific and is not related to the business logic of the component.
    • If such information is required, suggest having a system monitoring component instead.
    • Unclear exactly how this would work in a clustered environment. Different hosts implementing the same service would provide conflicting answers.
    • Unclear why the commentary on why memory leaks are bad is in the spec
  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:21 GMT
  • Disposition: Deferred — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Not necessary for now - fields are optional

    Referenced fields in HB are optional, so not necessary to use them. And others have indicated the comment re: memory leaks is useful. SDTF Ottawa recommended deferring until next update cycle, i.e., Ver 1.1.

  • Updated: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 20:50 GMT

Lack of a registry concept

  • Key: C2MS-3
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    Discoverability of data is still a major concern due to the lack of a registry.

    • Unclear how components are supposed to find out about available resources
    • Unclear how components are supposed to find out about related subjects
    • What is the associated heartbeat subject of a client, particularly a temporary one?
    • ME1 depends on knowing the name of the other end beforehand. Where is this supposed to come from and why should a component have to care about that?
    • Recommend a registry be considered and answers to question above.
  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:10 GMT
  • Disposition: Deferred — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    *This issue is out of scope of FTF type of work. *

    Recommend that this issue be deferred.

    A potential workaround is that Heartbeat messages be used to discover other components/services.

  • Updated: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 20:50 GMT

Product Messages comments

  • Key: C2MS-12
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    (Product Messages) Section 7.11 (Though these comments are related to guidance for custom messages

    • Consider providing guidance regarding what the minimal set of attributes should be for a custom message type.
    • Indicate that custom messages can be considered to become sponsored message types in future versions of the specification.
    • Extending the lexicon should be encouraged by the implementation, not discouraged, as the strictest of the GMSEC 4.x MIST modes does.
  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:26 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Change section 8.1 to mention extensions

    Change: "The Message Header is a super-class for all C2MS messages in the sense that all fields in the Message Header appear in all of the C2MS messages." to "The Message Header is a super-class for all C2MS messages and any extensions in the sense that all fields in the Message Header appear in all of the C2MS messages.

  • Updated: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:51 GMT

Mnemonic Value Request comments

  • Key: C2MS-10
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    (Mnemonic Value Request) Section 7.8.1

    • In GMSEC, re-requesting on the same name is (per an e-mail thread with GSFC) defined as replacing the previous subscription instead of being additive/subtractive. Is that notion being kept in this spec? If so, this should be explicitly defined in the specification.
    • DURATION: When there is no DURATION specified, but a component decides to have a maximum duration anyway, data will arbitrarily stop. This is problematic for subscriptions by a non-UI system component, like a script that checks telemetry values or a roll-up / derived capability that subscribes to data to produce second-level data. Mechanisms to avoid such stoppages in data, such as periodically resubscribing are wasteful and potentially inconsistent between components.
  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:23 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Part covered by issue 8, DURATION issue to be fixed by adding final message

    Rerequesting will be solved by resolution to issue 8, request-id. Duration will be solved by adding paragraph near duration description that final-message flag should always be set on sending final message. At the very end of section 8.8.1.3, where self-imposed duration is discussed, add this: "If a data provider does self-impose a maximum duration, the FINAL-MESSAGE field should be set appropriately in the last message sent."

  • Updated: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:51 GMT

Directive Request: strings, UNIQUE-ID and correlation IDs

  • Key: C2MS-8
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    • (Directive Request) Section 7.4.1

    • Note that directive strings are highly vendor-specific
    • There needs to be a unique ID that is set by the directive requester, not just the API. Otherwise, retrying is not deterministic. (Maybe the other side got the first directive. Maybe it didn’t. Sending the same request twice when the first was received might be dangerous.)
    • Table 8-3: UNIQUE-ID is filled in by the transport/bus layer, not the user application, so this does not remove the need for correlation IDs
  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:19 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    *Add field REQUEST-ID to all REQ, RESP, and applicable MSG messages *

    Field is set by requestor and echo'd by responder in RESP and MSG messages. Same Request-ID will mean replacement, else, new request.

    Added field REQUEST-ID to all REQ messages. Field is: Required, U16, "ID to identify the request message – if different request messages have the same value, the request is a replacement; else, it is a new request."

    Added field REQUEST-ID to all RESP messages. Field is: Required, U16, "This field’s value is to be the same as the REQUEST-ID in the associated REQ message."

    Added field REQUEST-ID to the MSG messages that have associated REQ and RESP messages. Field is: Required, U16, "This field’s value is to be the same as the REQUEST-ID in the associated REQ message."

  • Updated: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:51 GMT

Change comments regarding signed types

  • Key: C2MS-7
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    Table 8-1: Suggest changing comments regarding signed types. As written, they read like signed magnitude, even though the range implies twos complement.

  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:17 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Change verbiage on I16, I32 and I64 in the types table 8-1

    In Table 8-1, Field Type Definitions, make 3 changes removing the following phrase "composed of [15, 31, 63] bits for the number and 1 bit for the sign" from the I16, I32, and I64 rows.

  • Updated: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:51 GMT
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Have required attributes in the messages

  • Key: C2MS-6
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    Suggest favoring having required attributes in the messages rather than encouraging applications to hardcode looking for the nth element of the subject, as different existing GMSEC-based systems already have different numbers of tokens in the subject.

    • While these items may exist in the body of a message, it has been found that some existing GMSEC consuming apps are extracting from subjects
  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:16 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Add verbiage re: required attributes in messages; move CONSTELLATION-ID, and the 2 SAT-IDs to Required Fields

    In Figure 8-3 (Message Header), move CONSTELLATION-ID, and the 2 SAT-IDs to Required Fields.
    Edit paragraph 8.1.1 to change "Some of the elements of the C2MS subject name can be made up from fields in the C2MS Message Header." to "All of the elements of the C2MS subject name can be made up from required fields in the C2MS Message Header."

  • Updated: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:51 GMT
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Acknowledge Final Status is not deterministic

  • Key: C2MS-5
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    Table 6-9: Acknowledge Final Status is not deterministic (rather than Yes). It is a final status in MEP2, but not a final status in MEP 4, 5

  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:15 GMT
  • Disposition: Closed; No Change — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Remove table from specification

    The table referenced is confusing and not needed.
    It's table 6-9 in the MCMS pdf (which is what this issue was created against).
    In the Beta 1 spec pdf (dtc/2018-07-01) it's on page 21 as table 0-2.

  • Updated: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:51 GMT

Subject naming missing the concept of something not being directly tied to a satellite

  • Key: C2MS-4
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    Subject naming still missing the concept of something not being directly tied to a satellite. CC2/EGS has the MISSION==ENTERPRISE, CONSTELLATION==SERVICE concept.

    • Should more generic attribute names for these positions be considered?
  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:12 GMT
  • Disposition: Closed; No Change — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    *The existing fields Domain1 and Domain2 in the header portion satisfy this comment. *

    The Domain1 and Domain2 fields already present in C2MS are intended for the purpose described in this issue. Therefore, no change needed.

  • Updated: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:51 GMT

Should GMSEC API enforce/recommend XML-formatted string constructor usage?

  • Key: C2MS-2
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    Being that C2MS is standardizing the XML representation of a message entering the API, should the constructor that takes an XML-formatted Message be deemed the preferred way of using GMSEC going forward?

  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:09 GMT
  • Disposition: Closed; Out Of Scope — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue is against the GMSEC API, not C2MS

    This issue does not affect the C2MS document.

    Also, the C2MS document is not standardizing the XML representation of messages; XML files are provided by the GMSEC team as a convenience, but are not part of the standard.

  • Updated: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:51 GMT

Expecting that GMSEC will change to use C2MS as its Subject Standard

  • Key: C2MS-1
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NASA ( Mr. John Bugenhagen)
  • Summary:

    GMSEC uses a different value for Subject Standard Specification (in table 6.4). Expecting that GMSEC will change to use C2MS as its value to be a compliant PSM.

  • Reported: C2MS 1.0a1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:04 GMT
  • Disposition: Closed; Out Of Scope — C2MS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This comment is towards the GMSEC implementation, not C2MS

    The GMSEC implementation supports either C2MS or GMSEC as the SPECIFICATION, but this does not affect the C2MS document. Therefore, no change needed.

  • Updated: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:51 GMT