RFC initiated for Simple Spectral Access protocol

[Doug Tody]

Hi Roy -

Before doing this you might want to look at the SSA proxy service
for the JHU spectrum services (http://webtest.aoc.nrao.edu/ivoa-dal).
While this is an SSA service rather than a cone search, it will take
POS,SIZE and return a VOTable with pointers to the sloan spectra, so it
comes very close to what you describe.

	- Doug


On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Roy Williams wrote:

>
> > I'm afraid that I am with Randy on this.  Yes, VOTable is very
> > convenient for some things, but the danger is that if we emphasise it
> > too much for spectra, service providers may think that they don't have
> > to support anything else.
>
> What a coincidence to see this thread first thing this morning, since I
> have planned part of my day for translating the spectrum service from
> JHU into a proper cone search -- i.e. one that returns VOTable. And I am
> told by the developers (budavari and Dobos) that their XML format will
> change *again* in the near future, so that I will have to re-create this
> filter quite soon. What would be really nice is a spectral cone search
> -- RA and DEC and SR is converted to VOTable of sources and links to
> their spectra.
>
> Roy
>