Finishing the TAP Standard

[Keith Noddle]

After sterling work by the main editing team and following in the wake 
of the agreements reached in Trieste and earlier Interops, I am 
delighted with the progress we have made defining the TAP standard. With 
the substantive work done, we are now at the stage of tying together the 
loose ends and producing a document that reflects the agreements and 
spirit of the IVOA decisions.

To bring TAP to REC as quickly as possible, a single editor* will 
greatly reduce draft turn-around times, allowing the document to quickly 
converge upon its final form. I therefore want us to follow this process:

1. Guy Rixon edits TAP V0.3 in light of feedback received and decisions 
taken at previous Interops, producing the first draft of TAP 0.4.

2. The draft is posted to the DAL mailing list and the authors (at 
least) provide feedback which Guy incorporates into the draft, whilst 
ensuring overall consistency of the specs.

3. We repeat the above (fast iterations are the order of the day) until 
we have a document suitable to be presented to the IVOA as a Proposed 
Recommendation and get it to RFC.

I encourage everyone  - especially the authors - to get involved and 
help get a TAP standard defined ASAP!

Keith.

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* Note:

The term "Editor" has two meanings in English. One describes a 
management role, the other an editing role. The former has final 
responsibility for the content of a publication whilst the latter 
"...assists the author(s) prepare a document for publication". It is 
this latter definition that I am using when asking Guy to edit the TAP 
document. Obviously, this does not exclude Guy, as an author, from 
engaging in discussions on the DAL mailing list as appropriate.
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