Chronology Late 2000 – initial LTP design drafts circulated within DTN team. February 2002 – CFDP approved by CCSDS. December 2003 – Mani Ramadas (Ohio University) volunteers to work on an Internet Draft for LTP. March 2004 – Stephen Farrell (Trinity College, Dublin) joins up. 12 May 2004 – first LTP Internet Draft posted. Summer of 2004 – Stephen writes first implementation in C++. 19 August 2005 – Mani releases reference implementation in Java. 1 December 2006 – Chris Krupiarz (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab) reports on MESSENGER flight software testbed exercise of an LTP implementation in C. |