The ESDIS Standards Office (ESO) and the ESO Standards Interest Group (SIG) are the successors to the old ESDSWG Standards Process Group (SPG). The ESO will undertake the formal administration of the standards review process (the old SPG standards process) as well other standards-related activities for ESDIS. ESDIS continues to value community input to the standards review process and members of ESDSWG, as well as other members of the NASA Earth science community, will continue to be invited to participate in standards reviews. The ESO SIG is the community-liaison part of the standards office and will provide an avenue for community input to ESDIS standards activities in much the same way as the old SPG but with a more direct channel to ESDIS management.

The ESO (including the ESO SIG) is now a separate organization from ESDSWG although there will continue to be very close collaboration between the two groups. ESDSWG working groups will continue to work on standards-related activities (guidelines, best practices, recommendations etc.) up to the point of completing an RFC (Request for Comment) for submission to the standards review process. ESO will provide guidance and support to ESDSWG for these standards-related activities while these pre-RFC activities will continue to be managed by ESDSWG.

Once an RFC is complete and submitted to the standards review process, responsibility shifts from ESDSWG to the ESO. ESO will be responsible for establishing the Technical Working Groups (TWGs) to review the RFCs and overseeing the standards review process. Members of ESDSWG and other members of the NASA Earth science community will be invited to participate in ESO TWGs. ACCESS and MEaSUREs-funded participants in ESDSWG may receive ESDSWG participation credit for contributing to ESO TWGs with prior approval from the ESDSWG Manager.

The first Standards Interest Group (SIG) telecon will be held on Tuesday April 16th at 3pm EDT.

At the first ESO SIG telecon, we hope to discuss with you what the ESO is about, share a few examples of standards the ESDIS project is involved in, how we expect to coordinate with the ESDSWG standards related activities, and also initiate a working group to start conducting a public review of the proposed community standard, the Datacasting specification.  We will discuss the timing of future ESO SIG telecons and the initiation of new email lists for this effort.

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