Numerous concise recommendations appear in the notebook volume bearing the number 401.0-B. Each recommendation is dated, and the date of the most recent revision is shown in the table of contents. These recommendations are developed for conventional near-Earth and deep-space missions having moderate communications requirements. The current version includes all updates approved by the CCSDS Management Council through August 2005. The most recent release updates the following recommendations: 2.1.8B, 2.2.4, 2.2.6, 2.3.3A, 2.3.5, 2.4.2, 2.4.10, 2.4.14A, 2.4.14B, 2.4.15A, 2.4.15B, 2.4.16, 2.4.6, 2.4.7, 2.4.9, 2.5.6B, 3.1.1, 3.1.6B, 3.2.1A, 3.3.1, 3.3.2A, 3.6.2A, 4.1.5, 4.2.1, 4.2.2,n4.2.3. Terminology subsection 5.1 has also been updated with this release.