Running TAP/async jobs immediately: Proposal Text

Walter Landry wlandry at caltech.edu
Tue Oct 4 07:56:51 CEST 2016


Marco Molinaro <molinaro at oats.inaf.it> wrote:
> 2016-09-30 23:02 GMT+02:00 Walter Landry <wlandry at caltech.edu>:
>> Mandating support for single-request means that people can rely on it.
>> It makes TAP-async faster and easier to use.  I do not know the details
>> of everyone's implementation, but I would fall off my chair if this is
>> actually more work than writing these emails ;)
> 
> Probably it's not, but it's a change in standard.
> Re-reading Mark's comment, it may push TAP to 2.0.
> Not sure it's the right timing.

The standards process is still mysterious to me, but I would think
that this would only be a minor version change (e.g. TAP 1.2).  Old
clients can still talk to new services.

Cheers,
Walter Landry


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