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Overview
Project Title	Message Transfer Service
Approval
Document Number	875.0
Charter	4.02 Application Support Services Working Group
Document Type	Magenta
Description of Document	A specification for the onboard message transfer service that enables applications hosted onboard a spacecraft to communicate with each other using asynchronous ad hoc messaging, and define the service interface used to access that service.
Applicable Patents	There are no patent issues for this technology that are known by the CCSDS community
Patent Comments	None
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Schedule

Legend for Schedule Milestones = Required for Orange Books = Required for Green Books = Required for Magenta Books = Required for Blue Books Note - Red Books are Draft Blue/Magenta Books Schedule Milestones	Original Completion Date (Date in M/D/YYYY format.)	Comments (Date in M/D/YYYY format.)
Project Approved	11/12/2001
Project Start Date
Internal WG Review
First Draft Circulated to WG	9/4/2008
First Draft Comments Due	10/12/2008
Second draft circulated to WG	3/30/2009
Second Draft Comments Due	4/18/2009	Third round of WG review
Final WB Submitted to AD for Further Processing	5/30/2009
External Milestones
Secretariat Document Processing	6/29/2009
First Agency Review	10/30/2009
RID Resolution	3/30/2010
Secretariat Document Processing 2	4/29/2010
Final Agency Review	5/30/2010
RID Resolution	9/29/2010
First Prototype Development	9/30/2008
Second Prototype Development	5/30/2010
CMC Approval	12/30/2010	CMC Approved Poll
Total Time to Complete (in months)	1,310