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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear Data Access Layer Working Group,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">You would have seen the recent announcement of the Northern Spring IVOA virtual interop running from 25 – 29 April.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We invite you to contribute discussions on DAL related topics for the interop. These could be discussion on DAL standards either established, in development or emerging. We also encourage implementation reports
from data centres using and implementing the standards, and are particularly interested in your experiences whether you are using your own software or one of the existing implementations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please send your contributions with a speaker name, title and abstract to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:james.dempsey@csiro.au" title="mailto:james.dempsey@csiro.au"><span style="color:#0078D4">james.dempsey@csiro.au</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gregory.mantelet@astro.unistra.fr" title="mailto:gregory.mantelet@astro.unistra.fr"><span style="color:#0078D4">gregory.mantelet@astro.unistra.fr</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> .
If you are unsure about the suitability for a talk, or are a first time contributor, please get in contact with us and we can discuss it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please provide contribution details by Monday, 11 April to allow us time to organise the talks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">James Dempsey and Grégory Mantelet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">DAL WG Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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