[TAP RFC] reference needed

[Guy Rixon]

Pat,

RUNID was originally proposed in VOSI as part of the log-harvesting  
interface. We were going to use it to collate matching events in the  
various logs.

Log harvesting is no longer part of the VOSI WD. If it ever gets  
standardized in IVOA (and the last consensus I remember was that it  
doesn't need to be an IVOA standard but could be standardized at  
regional level, e.g. within VAO), then it will be separate from the  
VOSI we're now using.

There are old drafts of VOSI including log harvesting and RUNID  
references in the GWS-WG wiki, e.g. http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaGridAndWebServices/VOSupportInterfaces-0.24.pdf 
  . IIRC, 0.24 was the last VOSI draft that includes this.

Mike's reference to UWS is more relevant nowadays.

Basically, it's just a string that gets logged. If you want TAP to  
constrain the format you could do...but better not to, as other things  
than TAP may support it.

Guy

On 1 Oct 2009, at 18:31, Patrick Dowler wrote:

> On Monday 13 July 2009 09:34:30 Francois Ochsenbein wrote:
>> 2.3.9: RUNID -- is it just a number ? In any case, it would be
>>     useful to specify which characters are valid in this RUNID
>>     (not specified either in section 5 and subsections therein)
>>
>
> Can someone give me a reference to a document where the RUNID is  
> specified?
> I recall it comes from VOSI...
>
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