REC for ASCII MOCs

[Molinaro, Marco]

Hi all,

Il giorno mer 24 ott 2018 alle ore 11:48 Mark Taylor <
M.B.Taylor at bristol.ac.uk> ha scritto:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018, Markus Demleitner wrote:
>
> > An alternative would be to take ASCII MOCs to DALI.  In the end, DALI
> > will probably have to say something about MOCs anyway, as we'll need
> > an xtype=MOC if we want to (interoperably) exchange MOCs in VOTable
> > columns (which I want pretty much).  If we touch DALI, it might be a
> > little less work if DALI described the format itself (we'd touch only
> > one standard, not two of them).
> >
> > Opinions?
>
> A general point: I am not convinced it's a good idea to make DALI
> list all the xtypes we care about, since requiring a DALI update
> when inventing an xtype elswhere in the standards landscape
> introduces a hurdle that is IMHO unnecessarily painful -
> this MOC thing is a case in point.
>
> I agree that a central list of known xtypes is a useful thing to
> have, but it could be in a Note outside of the standards process
> or even (my vote) a wiki page.
>

I tend to agree with Mark on the xtypes list.
Would a vocabulary-like solution work?

Cheers,
     Marco


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