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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dear DAL community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Back at the October 2022 interop, the Ops Interest Group raised some issues with Simple Spectra Access that were still causing services to be marked as invalid. See
<a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpOct2022Ops">https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpOct2022Ops</a> and
<a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpOct2022Ops/ops-progress.pdf">
https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpOct2022Ops/ops-progress.pdf</a> for the discussion.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In a belated response to that I have drafted three proposed errata for Simple Spectral Access:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SSA-1_1-Err-3"><span style="color:#4571D0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">SSA-1.1 Erratum 3</span></a>: Correct XMLNS
in examples<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SSA-1_1-Err-4"><span style="color:#4571D0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">SSA-1.1 Erratum 4</span></a>: Make coverage
optional<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SSA-1_1-Err-5"><span style="color:#4571D0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">SSA-1.1 Erratum 5</span></a>: Clarify utype
prefixing<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212121">Please review the errata and if you have any concerns reply to this email or comment on the linked issues at
<a href="https://github.com/ivoa-std/SSA/issues">https://github.com/ivoa-std/SSA/issues</a></span>
<span style="color:#212121">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#00A9CE;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">James Dempsey
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