how to find cutout services?

[alberto micol]

Dear DALers,

The SODA standard §4.3 states:
"Resources in the IVOA Registry may include SODA capabilities. However, in order to use such services, clients require prior knowledge of suitable identifiers that are usable with a registered SODA standard service. As a result, finding and using a SODA service via the registry is not expected to be a common usage pattern.”

Because of that many data providers might not register their SODA-capable services.

How can then a user search for cutout services (and not just a mere SIA without cutout)?

I was expecting, for example, that a SIA returning a DataLink that supports SODA would be declared as such in the registry,
that is, listing in its SIA capabilities both DataLink and SODA (using the ivo://ivoa.net/std/SODA#sync−1.0 standard ID (or async) ).

I tried to query for SODA in the registry, but I could not find any service supporting SODA (but my ability to query the registry might be not that advanced!).

Would not be better to remove that sentence in §4.3 and encourage, if not even require, the data providers to include the SODA standard ID in their SODA-capable services?

Many thanks,
Alberto

 
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