Document Types

• Standard—specification approved by a recognized standards body such as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Convention—specification in common use among some members of the NASA ESDS community
  • In practice, Standard and Convention are often used interchangeably
• Suggested Practice—guidance on how to apply a particular standard or convention within the NASA ESDS community
• Lessons Learned—document describing the use of software, protocols or processes that may be helpful to others
• Administrative Document—used to manage the standards process

Resource Types

• Software—library or toolkit available for use
• Specification—document describing a format or protocol in sufficient detail that it can be independently implemented in software
• Process—steps that can be followed to reach a desired result
• Technical Note—other technical document of interest to the community

Technology Area

• Data Format
• Metadata
• Discovery and Access
• Data Quality
• Data Usability
• Process

Review Status

Defines current position in the standards review process:

• Legacy—formal review has been bypassed for a legacy standard in common usage
• Monitoring—up and coming technology to watch, not yet described in an RFC
• In development—document is being written
• Submitted—document has been submitted for evaluation
• In review—community comment and ESCO evaluation in progress
• Final—published document

Recommendation

• Approved—recommended for use in NASA Earth science data systems
• Emerging—promising technology, not rigorously reviewed or widely adopted yet
• Limited / Restricted—approved for use only in certain circumstances
• Deprecated—don't choose for new projects
• Obsoleted—no longer in use
• Proposed / In Process—placeholder until recommendation is made