separating TAP and query languages

[Patrick Dowler]

On Monday 23 February 2009 10:36:32 Roy Williams wrote:
> So the only thing we can do is to try and submit Multicone as its own
> standard, independent of the TAP effort.
>
> If only ADQL were not mandatory.  If only TAP were a family of linked
> protocols, rather than this monolith.

The idea of separate services was proposed and rejected at a previous interop. 
Specifically, it was agreed that it was preferable to include optional 
param-query capability within TAP than to make it a separate service 
specification. 

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