Space Internetworking Services Area
The Space Internetworking Services Area (SIS) supports the work of the CCSDS by providing services and protocols to address
networked interactions of many forms: - between spacecraft and earth-based resources, - among spacecraft, - between spacecraft and landed
elements, and - within heterogeneous spacecraft. The SIS Area deals with communication services and protocols that are independent of specific
link technology (as a lower layer bound) and independent of application-specific semantics (as an upper bound). This covers essentially the
network through application layers of the OSI reference model. The SIS Area accommodates all ranges of delay, interactivity, and directionality,
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