IVOA VOTable signature issue

[Carlos Rodrigo]

Hi

We have multi-resource notables in  datalink, don't we?

Besides that, i agree on everything. In particular i also  guess that this info element  is  better placed as a child of votable.

Carlos

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En 30 de mar. de 2017 11:58, en 11:58, Mark Taylor <M.B.Taylor at bristol.ac.uk> escribió:
>Marco,
>
>On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Marco Molinaro wrote:
>
>> 2017-03-23 10:40 GMT+01:00 François Bonnarel
>> <francois.bonnarel at astro.unistra.fr>:
>> >
>> > 1 ) Having the standardID of the protocol in an INFO tag of the
>response is
>> > definitely a good idea.
>> 
>> Regarding this topic, Pierre lighted a discussion at last week's
>> ASTERICS DADI Tech Forum.
>> The general opinion was that it's a good idea indeed, and that an
>INFO
>> element (as a <votable>
>> child) could take care of this information.
>> 
>> Some hesitation whether this info should be <resource> related was
>> expressed, but it seems
>> that, for now at least something like:
>> 
>> <info name="STANDARD_ID" value="ivo://ivoa.net/TAP"/>
>> 
>> may be ok.
>> 
>> Now, while looking at DALI-1.1, I realized that it's already there
>> (§4.4.3) and it's there since DALI-1.0.
>
>Good catch!  And apologies that (as a listed DALI author) I didn't
>realise that was in place.
> 
>> The changes to make would be
>> - move it from a MAY clause into some more robust recommendation (not
>> a MUST, of course)
>
>Yes, I'd say it should get promoted to a SHOULD.
>
>> - define if it should be "standardID" (as it is now in the text) or
>> "STANDARD_ID",
>>    as proposed by Markus following the QUERY_STATUS format
>
>Since it's already present as "standardID" I don't think there
>is a good argument to change the capitalisation.
>
>> - consider if we have to move that <info> from being child of
>> <resource> (DALI-1.1 currently)
>>   to a child of <votable> directly
>
>Not so sure about this.  I *think* it's more logical to have it as
>a direct child of the VOTable document, since that's what's
>coming from the service.  On the other hand, DALI 4.4 says that
>anything outside of the RESOURCE labelled type="results" is outside
>the scope of DALI.  At present, we don't have multi-resource VOTable
>documents from any service, but one or the other option might look
>more sensible if at some time in the future we do.
>But on balance, I'd say leave the DALI text as it is and work with
>that.
>
>Mark
>
>--
>Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
>m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-9288776  http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/
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