MType list

[Mark Taylor]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Juan de Dios Santander Vela wrote:

> El 19/01/2009, a las 12:49, Mark Taylor escribió:
>> [...]
>> d) agree to issue an IVOA Recommendation Track document along the
>>    lines of the UCD1+ Controlled Vocabulary document, as suggested
>>    by Jesus Salgado, and fix the text to refer to this as something
>>    which will be available (once it's gone through the lengthy
>>    recommendation process)
>> [...]
>> Does anybody have input on how we should respond to this comment?
>> It would be good to have fairly prompt replies so we can continue the
>> recommendation process without too much delay.
>
>
> I think that the best course of action is similar to your d) proposal: 
> providing a quarterly update on the MTypes list, or if that is considered too 
> frequent, a twice a year update based on the App sessions in IVOA InterOps. 
> Should we involved, perhaps, the Semantics group in the maintenance of what 
> it is a kind (albeit a different one) of controlled vocabulary?

Juan,

can you comment on why you would rather see this information issued 
as a recommendation track document, which requires review by the rest of
the IVOA and the necessary delays associated with this, than as a Note
which requires no external review?  My opinion is that the details of
the messages which will be defined here will be of interest only to
quite a small community of application developers, rather than to the
Semantics WG or to IVOA members in general.  Also, there may be periods 
when revisions are desired frequently (out of sync with the IVOA Exec 
meetings required to ratify recommendations) and others when no changes 
are needed for some while.

Mark

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