What defines a mobile instrument requiring minimum reconfiguration?

Networked Instrument

Not every instrument will use all of these services, but this would be a full list:

Networking

Issue

Standardize

Address and subnet

Decided no standard

NTP server IP address

Decided no standard

DNS server IP address

Decided no standard

Default Gateway

Decided no standard

Receiving Data or Nav Feed (intra-plane) 

Issue

Standardize

Packet format

IWG1 packet

IP address to receive from

UDP broadcast to x.x.x.255, not multicast

Port number

Yes; In progress

Transmitting Data (intra-plane)

Issue

Standardize

Packet format

CSV packet (ID,val1,val2,...,valN)

Packet definition (units, description)

In progress; send upon request, not periodically

IP address of destination

UDP broadcast to x.x.x.255, not multicast

Port number

Yes; In progress; 3 common ports, IWG1, data port, and health/status/logging port

Other?

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