Light curves in the IVOA

[Patrick Dowler]

What's all this mailing list traffic at the end of June? I take a few days off 
before the kids are out of school... :-)

I just wanted to say that this sounds interesting, relevant work has been done 
both inside and outside the IVOA, and most importantly it sounds like there 
are people who want to deliver such services and to use them. That is a very 
good position to start from (although "start" isn't entirely accurate in this 
case). 

As the suite of IVOA standards matures, we do need to be more and more 
cognizant of how new standards fit in with existing ones and it is to 
everyone's benefit to take advantage of past investment in design and 
implementation wherever possible.

With that in mind, I will ask people to collect relevant links and use cases 
and put them on the wiki:

http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/LightCurves

These will be used to guide further work. I will see about organising an 
informal telecon to discuss, maybe in the first half of July.

-- 

Patrick Dowler
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