RFC Folders

RFC List

Each document that is submitted to the SPG for processing is called a "Request For Comment" document or RFC. The RFC number remains constant throughout the process and thus serves as a convenient shorthand for the standard.

This table lists all RFC's, either in-process or final.

ESDS-RFC

Heritage Standards

Each RFC receives a number. Once approved as "Final", the RFC text is never changed in a substantive way. Editorial changes are collected in an errata document until the RFC Editor and the Standards Process Group decide to update the document. Technical changes would require that a new RFC number be issued and the new RFC would need to be submitted as a new RFC.

 

Title

Clicking on the title will lead you directly to the RFC document or to a folder containing the document.

 

Revision

Revision numbers beginning with "0." are for in-process RFCs. Revision 1 is for Final RFCs. Other revision numbers will be assigned if the document is changed.

 

Class

Technical Notes are informational notes. Standards Track documents are in-process to become standards. Standards are final standards.

 

Status

Draft means the document is being reviewed. Pending means the document is awaiting final approval. Final means the document has passed through the entire process successfully.

 

Errata

If "yes", clicking on the link leads to the errata document for the RFC.

These interfaces and data formats were in use by NASA Earth Science Data Systems prior to the start of the ES Data Systems SPG. Some of these have also been submitted to the SPG as an RFC and are included in both this list and the RFC list. The "EOSDIS Standards Summary" provides a good starting point to learn about these standards.

• EOSDIS Standards Summary - A list of some of the major areas of standards in Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) at NASA.
• Responses to Standards Question - To start the Standards Process, the SPG invited the Earth Science Data community to identify interfaces that would benefit from standardization. This document lists the responses gathered. Contents are taken directly from the original responses.
• GCMD DIF - Global Change Master Directory, Directory Interchange Format for Datasets (GCMD DIF) * (for all NASA ESE products)
• EOSDIS Core System Data Model - EOSDIS Core System - Science Metadata Model for Earth Science Data Types (ECS ESDT Data Model) * (for EOS standard products)
• FGDC CSDGM - Federal Geographic Data Committee - Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC Content Standard) * (via ECS, ECHO, or GCMD+)
• EOS Clearinghouse - EOS Clearinghouse Data Provider Science Data Model (ECHO Ingest Data Model )
• HDF and HDF-EOS Profile - Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) (including the HDF-EOS profile of HDF) * (for Earth Observing System standard products)
• netCDF  - Network Common Data Format (netCDF) (for Topex/Poseidon data products and others)
• GeoTIFF - Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) (for distributing Landsat-7 data products and other land raster imagery)
• Landsat 7 Fast Format - Fast Format (for distributing Landsat-7 data products)
• WMO BUFR  - World Meteorological Organization Binary Universal Format for Representation (BUFR) (for distributing SeaWinds data products)
• EOSDIS V0  - EOSDIS Version 0 Information Management System Protocol
• ANSI Z39.50 - American National Standards Institute (ANSI/ISO Z39.50) and its profiles (including GILS, GEO and CIP profiles)
• OPeNDAP - OPen-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP)
• EOSDIS Guide  - EOSDIS Guide document standard for product collecitons in EOSDIS Version 0 and the EOSDIS Core System.
• FGDC NVCI  - National Vegetation Classification and Information Standards approved by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (NVCI/FGDC)