We are pleased to announce the membership of our Technical Documentation Work Group:
Work Group Lead: Scott Burleigh
Work Group Members: Laura Chappell, Henry Danielson, Daniel Kalemi, Scott Landman, Ben Scott, Ginny Spicer
The Work Group has begun meeting and is making progress toward organizing IPN information resources into an easily accessible online library. Watch for announcements as we begin compiling this highly heterogenous digital reference.
Today, we are pleased to announce the formation of the Pilot Projects Work Group (PWG).
Work Group Lead:
Oscar Garcia – Unified Medical Records – DHIN Inc.
Work Group Members:
Dr. Larissa Suzuki – Google Inc.
Dr. Alberto Montilla Bravo – Spatiam Corporation
Juan Fraire – CONICET – National University of Cordoba – Argentina
Alberto Montilla Ochoa – Spatiam CorporationJesus David Terrazas – University of Manitoba – Canada
Work Group Advisors:
Scott Burleigh – Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
Dr. Keith Scott – Mitre Corporation
Several IPNSIG members have shown their interest in joining the PWG activities and will be introduced to the group in subsequent meetings.
PWG is committed to expanding the use of DTN in practical situations in different landscapes. Members of PWG will be working in implementing DTN in various areas such as:
connectivity between Clouds services
first responder’s system for emergency situations
medical records for space exploration
IoT and interfacing with Clouds
communications in extreme environments
security
routing in Space and Earth
e-commerce over satellite networks
imagery analysis and processing with artificial intelligence using Cloud services
technical tools for testing connectivity and stability
fast deployment kits
DTN protocols integration to off the shelf operating systems, programming languages and database engines
We are committed to the success of our mission and are also eager to hear about initiatives from IPNSIG members who are engaged in research and implementation of DTN technologies. If you are developing DTN applications and you would like to share your experience, please contact PWG at info@ipnsig.org.
Some references to efforts by the PWG members:
Presentations at the Space-Terrestrial Internetworking workshop (STINT) in October 2020.
Testing Connectivity between Clouds using DTN – one of the first demonstrations that successfully completed its first stage in January 2021.
Best regards,
Oscar Garcia, Pilot Projects Working Group Lead
IPNSIG Board Member
IPNSIG member Juan Fraire has crafted an excellent set of new logos for IPNSIG. We will be increasingly incorporating these into our website and communications. Members of the IPNSIG board met with Juan repeatedly over the past couple of months to discuss the logo and review iterations. We’re really pleased with the results, and we trust you will be pleased also. Various versions of the logo are shown below.
In the words of the designer:
This logo intends to express the shape of concentric circular orbits accompanied by stars on the background. Orbital paths are discontinuous, to transmit the feeling of disruption, a natural feature of interplanetary networking. Color codes are lighter at the center mimicking sun/star light. Notice the logo works on clear/dark backgrounds (i.e., paper, space flyers, publicity, etc.) and plain black/ white versions are adequate for monochrome printing.
Thanks so much to Juan for his work!