x-samp.query.by-meta

[Sylvain LAFRASSE]

On 21 nov. 2011, at 12:20, Mark Taylor wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> following a suggestion from Luigi, I've added a draft for a new 
> experimental MType, x-samp.query.by-meta, to the 
> http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SampMTypes
> wiki page.  The main point of this is to make it easy for SAMP
> clients to find the ID of a client with a given name, e.g.
> "is Aladin registered, and if so what's its client ID?",
> though it can be used in more general ways too.
> This would typically be implemented by the Hub, though since
> normal clients could implement it, my feeling is that it an
> (x-)samp.hub.* name would not be appropriate.
> 
> The description on that wiki page is just my first draft for discussion;
> if anybody wants to change/improve/rename it, or thinks it's a bad
> idea, please edit it and/or discuss it on this list.
> In particular: Luigi, does this do what you had in mind?

We are greatly interested by this feature, and would vote for the hub to do the job !
This way we could rely on it, without waiting/hoping on every client to be updated (e.g old no more maintened ones).

Sylvain LAFRASSE, on the behalf of the JMMC team.

> 
> Mark
> 
> --
> Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
> m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/

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