<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Dear DAL,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">we had an effective meeting in Groningen, thank you all for that!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">For those who didn&#39;t have the chance to be there, here&#39;s a quick</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">summary of what has happened plus some information on the roadmap</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">to the next Interop (Sydney, 1st week of May 2020, save the date).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">TAP: we now have REC v.1.1!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">(<a href="http://www.ivoa.net/documents/TAP/20190927/" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.ivoa.net/documents/TAP/20190927/</a>)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Thanks to all those made that possible and let&#39;s keep on now, with</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">implementations, feedback and new features!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">The meeting sessions saw nice reports with feedback on most of the </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">DAL standards (in connection also to Applications development), the </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">ongoing discussion on AuthN&amp;AuthZ (in collaboration with GWS) and </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">the first steps in general discussion of the &quot;caproles&quot;, and finally</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">discussion on the near work for the WG.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">(see schedule <a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpOct2019DAL" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpOct2019DAL</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">for more details)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">This latter session is directly connected to the DAL roadmap, that</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">will see:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">- ADQL progressing up to REC</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">- DataLink &amp; DALI revisions starting up</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">- SLAP aligning itself to SSLDM track</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">- ProvTAP getting to WD</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">- a restart of the revision for ConeSearch</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">and possibly work on retrieving complex data from TAP services.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">(see also the DAL roadmap itself</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/2019BRoadmap#Data_Access_Layer_WG" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/2019BRoadmap#Data_Access_Layer_WG</a>)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Looking forward to seeing progress during winter/spring!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Cheers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">    Marco &amp; James</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">PS - DAL has also a slack channel within the IVOA ones, consider</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">joining, if you like the tool! (ask us if you need help)</div></div>