EUROCAE ED-262A PDF

SCOPE OF INVESTIGATION

The current scope of IPS Profiles is the air/ground (A/G) communication supporting B1, B2, FANS 1/A, and AOC services. However, this does not preclude use of this minimum standard to support other services. UAS may use this minimum standard when they use services within its scope. UAS may also use this minimum standard when using networked RLOS and BRLOS services for applications specific to UAS such as command and control (C2). The desire is to maintain the IPS to be closely aligned with the commercial Internet Standards such that the aviation industry can benefit from Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) implementations. The scope of this investigation has been limited to stable IETF RFCs in the Standards Track. However, IETF may update, add or make some of these RFCs obsolete in the future. Therefore, periodic update of this Profiles document is expected. In addition, as system implementations mature to gradually include more features -- resulting in increased performance -- more complex parts of the standard may be chosen by the aviation community to be incorporated into new and more-advanced IPS profiles. If so, some of the parameters provided in this document may have to be updated. In support of that document management strategy, this Revision A of Document DO-379/ED-262 updates the original IPS Profiles to remove obsolete RFCs, such as IETF RFC 6347 and replaces it with RFC 9147; and updates other RFC profiles in accordance with the requirements specified in ICAO IPS SARPs, Technical Manuals and RTCA/EUROCAE MASPS.

This document has investigated the use of Standards Track IETF RFCs against avionics needs.

It should be noted that the RFCs included in this document are minimum capabilities required to ensure Air/Ground interoperability and performance of aeronautical safety services. However, it is envisioned that these Profiles will equally satisfy the non-safety aviation services, thereby reducing overall implementation and operational costs of aviation networks.