VOSpace vs WebDAV

[Dave Morris]

Hi GWS and Registry,

[Again, followups on registry at ivoa.net]

For Registry folks not on GWS:  There's been a discussion on
the relation between various URI schemes and http over on the GWS
mailing list, with this contribution from Norman:

http://www.ivoa.net/pipermail/grid/2014-May/002587.html

To which Paul replied:

On 2014-05-16 08:17, Paul Harrison wrote:
> .... The only nastiness that I can see is that unfortunately
> IVORNs have a resource key that looks hierarchical (and must be so
> interpreted according to the “/" rules for URIs) - it would be cleaner
> if IVORNS where just ivo://authority/key with no extra hierarchical
> parts - which actually represents what the “registry data model”  is.

Totally agree.
If we could do this, then the world would be a much much happier place.

     * It would make 'ivo://' URI parsers much simpler to write
     * We would no longer need the non standard '!' delimiter in 'vos://' 
URIs
     * We could begin to talk about using '/' to delimit "objects within 
resources"

Is now the right time to fix this ?

Thanks,
Dave

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Dave Morris
Software Developer
Wide Field Astronomy Unit
Institute for Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
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