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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dear DAL community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">At the May interop, the Operations IG raised the confusion around the use of a trailing separator (question mark or ampersand) in the base URL for Simple Spectral Access services. This is recorded as
<a href="https://github.com/ivoa-std/SSA/issues/4">https://github.com/ivoa-std/SSA/issues/4</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">To resolve this, I have drafted a proposed erratum for Simple Spectral Access to clarify the trailing separator requirement at
<a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SSA-1_1-Err-1">https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SSA-1_1-Err-1</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU">Please review the erratum and if you have any concerns reply to this email or comment on the issue.</span><span lang="EN-AU"> Thanks to Mark Taylor and Marco Molinaro for reviews so far.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-AU">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:#00A9CE">James Dempsey </span>
</b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt">(he/him)</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Senior Developer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#00A9CE">|</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"> 02 6214 2912</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#00A9CE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">GPO Box 1700, CANBERRA ACT 2601</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#757579">CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture
and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#757579">CSIRO </span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#757579">Australia’s National Science Agency | csiro.au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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