MType list

[Juan de Dios Santander Vela]

El 19/01/2009, a las 13:34, Mark Taylor escribió:

>> 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.


OK, I was not aware of the additional burden of Recommendation Track  
documents. My view is that the MType list needs to be maintained in  
some kind of official way. Perhaps the
Recommendation Track is too much, but we might think of an internal,  
AppsWG-contained, similar
process...

Barring the d) option, the issuing of an IVOA Note with the current  
list of MTypes which
the SAMP Recommendation should point to seems fine with me. We can  
agree on versioning on the
document, so that something like <http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/SAMP_MTypes.html 
 > links to the last version. It is much more permanent than a wiki  
page, and provides both the latest standard and agreed prior versions  
of it.

-- 
Juan de Dios Santander Vela
Diplomado en CC. Físicas, Ingeniero en Electrónica
Doctorando en Tecnologías Multimedia
Becario Predoctoral del Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía

Isaac Asimov: No temo a los ordenadores. Temo a su falta.