SIA Evolution Proposal

[Alberto Micol]

>But here we have two
>observations (which are pretty natural units in the astronomical world)
>which just happen to have the same filter setting.  I don't see it as
>terribly wasteful to have the filter values specified twice, once within
>each observation chunk
>

Yes Clive, I was thinking about that too.
Nevertheless, I'm used to live in a word that is a bit less than perfect;
apart from Iraqi or Palestinian or American (depends on your point of 
view) considerations,
here I mean that the speed of light is finite, and the bandwidth is what 
it is.
Hence, for more than just a couple of observations, I prefer not to 
duplicate
information.

Alberto
PS: Maybe it's too long that I work with RDBMSes, certainly I am always 
too worried
about things that could go wrong or slow. And the fact that I care about 
them does not
make my way of developing faster ... catch22 ... help!