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Magenta
Books: Recommended Practices
CCSDS Recommended Practices
(Magenta Books)
are the consensus results of CCSDS community deliberations
and provide a way to capture “best” or “state of the art”
approaches for applying or using standards. They may include
references to sets of standards selected to perform certain
applications, or guidelines for standardized processes or
procedures for accomplishing tasks, or other materials (such
as reference models) to assist in the design, use or
selection of standards. Practices say, “here is how the
community recommends that you should carry out or describe
this particular kind of operation at present, or how the
community recommends that it should be carried out in the
future”. Note that while CCSDS Recommended Standards are
often concerned with the technical specifications for
hardware and software components required for computer
communication across interconnected space mission support
networks, a Recommended Practice might specify some specific
“Application Profiles” of multiple CCSDS Standards that are
recommended for use in particular mission support
configurations.
Another use of a Practice might be to
recognize that the world space mission infrastructure is
composed of networks operated by a great variety of
organizations, with diverse goals and rules, and that good
user service requires that the operators and administrators
of these networks follow some common guidelines for policies
and operations. While these guidelines are generally
different in scope and style from protocol standards, their
establishment needs a similar process for consensus
building.
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