Le 28/02/2024 à 19:53, tomaso.dec...@dlr.de a écrit :
But there exists already a CCSDS spec for IP over CCSDS…
Moreover the snapshot you attached is about TC frames, I.e. for telecommand 
services…

If they gave another example of non telecommand services, or if they told that IPv6 must not be carried in telecommand services...

But I will wait and see for some time.

Alex


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On 28. Feb 2024, at 18:47, Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink 
<starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

The CCSDS spec is an interesting document.

I am trying to find a packet dump of a CCSDS packet that travelled in space 
according to this CCSDS spec.  If there is a place with CCSDS packet dumps I am 
interested to see them.

Given that, I could think about writing an IPv6-over-CCSDS preliminary Internet 
Draft.

I could find a png image of a packet dump at ESA 
(https://essr.esa.int/project/ccsds-wireshark-dissector), but that is not a 
real packet dump binary file that could be loaded in wireshark; strangely, they 
do provide a dissector, but not a packet.

Here are my IPv6 comments about CCSDS, relative to that png of a CCSDS packet 
(png attached):

- the shown 'Frame Length' field is on 16bits.  For IPv6, this can be fine, in 
principle. The good thing is that the minimum MTU of IPv6 is 1280, and that can 
be encoded ok with a 16bit length field.  On another hand, the 'Payload Length' 
of IPv6 is also on 16bit.  This means that the largest normal IPv6 packet would 
not fit into a single CCSDS frame, and would need to be fragmented by CCSDS.  
Maybe fragmentation is little desirable when RTT is 45minutes.  And, there are 
also the IPv6 'jumbograms'.

- there is a 'Spacecraft ID' and 'VC ID' fields combined on 16bits: this field 
could be used, if appropriate in some context, to help with forming IPv6 
link-local addresses.  If there is worry about privacy, and these IDs could be 
used to input hashes, such as to obtain hopefully unique numbers; these 
hopefully unique numbers are often necessary when designing IPv6 addressing 
architectures, subnet numbers, IPv6 ULA addresses, secure addresses for secure 
identification, and similar.

- there is a 'SDLS Header' containing a 'Security Parameter Index' field.  If 
this packet contains an IPv6 packet with an ESP header (encapsulated sec'y 
protocol) then that too has a 'Security Parameter Index' field (SPI).  It would 
be good to re-use.  Ideally, one would rely entirely on IPsec and almost not at 
all on CCSDS-specific security.
Alex

Le 23/02/2024 à 19:03, Dave Taht via Starlink a écrit :
Given the trouble the moon lander has had communicating, I looked over
this just now.

https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/133x0b2e1.pdf

I reviewed a similar document for the earth-moon corridor by NASA
about 2 years ago, and it was a mess of non-interoperable bands and
protocols. I cannot remember the name of that one.
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