Projects

Overview
Project Title	MO Message Abstraction Layer
Approval
Document Number
Charter	2.04 Spacecraft Monitoring and Control Working Group
Document Type	Blue
Description of Document	The Message Abstraction layer (MAL) provides the basic toolkit of operations and messages that all MO services use to build their service specifications. It provides a standard abstract service to the higher MO services so that they can concentrate on the service specifics and remain transport and encoding agnostic. It provides a service model, a messaging infrastructure and a behaviour model that supports the definition of abstract MO services that are mapped to a specific programming language and a specific messaging technology at a later date in other books. By providing this abstract layer it allows the physical program representation and on the wire representation to be separated and therefore supports interoperability between components without requiring a fixed implementation language.
Applicable Patents	There are no patent issues for this technology that are known by the CCSDS community
Patent Comments
Survey of Similar Standards Documents or Projects Undertaken in Other Bodies and elsewhere in CCSDS
Resources
Book Editor	ESA
Book Editor Resources
Prototype 1	ESA
Prototype 1 Resources
Prototype 2	CNES
Prototype 2 Resources
Prototype 3
Prototype 3 Resources
Contribute	CNES, DLR, ESA, NASA, UKSA
Monitor Only	ASI, CSA, FSA, INPE, JAXA
Resource Comments

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	10/17/2008
Project Start Date
Internal WG Review
First Draft Circulated to WG	1/7/2009	This is mainly a re-arrangement of existing material following the
First Draft Comments Due	1/21/2009	About 2 months delay has been introduced to allow SciSys to work on the EUMETSAT MAL prototype.
Second draft circulated to WG	1/21/2009
Second Draft Comments Due	1/21/2009
Final WB Submitted to AD for Further Processing	1/26/2009
External Milestones
Secretariat Document Processing	1/28/2009
First Agency Review	2/15/2009	2m for review assumed as it is a rearrangement of already reviewed
RID Resolution
Secretariat Document Processing 2
Final Agency Review
RID Resolution
First Prototype Development
Second Prototype Development
CMC Approval	5/29/2009
Total Time to Complete (in months)	1,291