<div dir="ltr">Hi Dave,<div>I took the liberty to post your comment on the RFC page, just after Pat's response to this topic.</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div>In any case a value attribute is mandatory for INFO (but that's minor with respect to the other point above, in my opinion).</div><div><br></div><div>That said, probably Pat's response gives a more interoperable solution (put this information in DALI or use VO-DML).</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe we should spend some time on this topic to define it's place in the issues for which REC.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div> Marco<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-09-26 7:04 GMT+02:00 Dave Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.morris@metagrid.co.uk" target="_blank">dave.morris@metagrid.co.uk</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
On 2014-07-21 09:12, Markus Demleitner wrote:<br>
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VOTable responses from datalink 1.0 services would thus contain:<br>
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<INFO name="SERVICE_PROTOCOL" value="1.0">datalink</INFO><br>
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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.<br>
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<INFO name="SERVICE_PROTOCOL">ivo://<a href="http://ivoa.net/std/DataLink#links-1.0" target="_blank"><u></u>ivoa.net/std/DataLink#links-1.<u></u>0</a></INFO><br>
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That enables us to use the same mechanism to refer to new types of services we haven't invented yet.<br>
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<INFO name="SERVICE_PROTOCOL"><a href="http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/NotInventedYet20140926" target="_blank">http:/<u></u>/wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/<u></u>IVOA/NotInventedYet20140926</a></<u></u>INFO><br>
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Dave Morris<br>
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Wide Field Astronomy Unit<br>
Institute for Astronomy<br>
University of Edinburgh<br>
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