TAP1.0 Comments - TABLEDATA

[Mark Taylor]

Paul and lurkers,

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Paul Harrison wrote:

> However, what about the other restriction on VOTable that have been mentioned
> - only returning TABLEDATA - this seems like an unnecessary restriction also,
> and one that stops efficient transfer of large amounts of data, possibly
> restricting TAP services to being "toy" services rather than the basis of
> large scale cross matching as is hoped. What was the thinking behind this
> restriction?

I've raised this one before on the DAL list; Pat seemed amenable to 
removing the restriction (though I don't know whether that's 
tantamount to agreeing to do so):

   http://www.ivoa.net/forum/dal/0907/1387.htm

Mark

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