DataLink RFC period annoucment

[Marco Molinaro]

Hi Dave,
I took the liberty to post your comment on the RFC page, just after Pat's
response to this topic.

I, personally, like the idea, but I wonder if it is allowed to put a
URL/URI in INFO that is a PARAM restricted to strings (even if one can
consider those as strings, but it seems like mixing up the meaning of the
element).
In any case a value attribute is mandatory for INFO (but that's minor with
respect to the other point above, in my opinion).

That said, probably Pat's response gives a more interoperable solution (put
this information in DALI or use VO-DML).

Maybe we should spend some time on this topic to define it's place in the
issues for which REC.

Cheers,
     Marco

2014-09-26 7:04 GMT+02:00 Dave Morris <dave.morris at metagrid.co.uk>:

>
> On 2014-07-21 09:12, Markus Demleitner wrote:
>
>>
>>   VOTable responses from datalink 1.0 services would thus contain:
>>
>>     <INFO name="SERVICE_PROTOCOL" value="1.0">datalink</INFO>
>>
>>
> I like the idea of declaring what type of service created the table, but
> it would be better to just use the URI for the standard.
>
>     <INFO name="SERVICE_PROTOCOL">ivo://ivoa.net/std/DataLink#links-1.0
> </INFO>
>
> That enables us to use the same mechanism to refer to new types of
> services we haven't invented yet.
>
>     <INFO name="SERVICE_PROTOCOL">http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/
> IVOA/NotInventedYet20140926</INFO>
>
>
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> Dave Morris
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> Institute for Astronomy
> University of Edinburgh
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