Reference implementations

[Rob Seaman]

With no sense of irony, perhaps also (3) Review by astronomers external to IVOA? There should be some sort of demonstration of fitness of purpose, an implied warranty that IVOA recommendations are also recommended by practicing astronomers. Ideally engagement with the larger community should occur earlier in the standards process, but certainly there should be some sort of formal acceptance criteria tied to the needs of the ultimate customers for all this work?

Rob
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On May 10, 2016, at 6:04 AM, Matthew Graham <mjg at cd3.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We're trying to define specifically what would satisfy the reference implementation requirement for an IVOA Spec in the context of a data model. The proposal is that: 
> 
> (1) If the DM has been described using VO-DML it can be validated as valid VO-DML
> 
> (2) An XML serialization of the DM can be validated 
> 
> so therefore is the combination of the two sufficient to demonstrate the validity and potential interoperability of the data model (which is the purpose of the reference implementations). 
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew