IVOA RFC for Space Time Coordinates document

Fri Apr 8 08:26:57 PDT 2005

Johnathan

Next week is the VOEvent workshop in Pasadena. There has been email discussion already 
(*), and there will be F2F discussion of STC next week. So I hope you and Arnold can wait 
just a little longer for suggestions for revisions.

Roy

(*) http://www.ivoa.net/forum/voevent/

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan McDowell" <jcm at head.cfa.harvard.edu>
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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 7:39 AM
Subject: IVOA RFC for Space Time Coordinates document

> Dear IVOA,
>
> Since there have been no objections to the version of Space-Time Coordinates
> (STC) posted as Proposed Recommendation on Mar 18, I call for the
> formal Request for Comments on this document.
>    http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/STC.html
> The RFC is at
>    http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/STCMetadataRFC
>
>
> - Jonathan McDowell, DM Working Group.
>
>
>
>>From the IVOA documentation doc:
> : Next maturity level.  After a publication period of at least two weeks,
> : the chair of the Working Group that developed the Proposed
> : Recommendation may call for a formal Request for Comments (RFC).  The
> : RFC is sent to the widest possible IVOA distribution lists
> : (interop at ivoa.net) and announced on the website.  Distribution of the
> : RFC initiates a four-week public review period.  All comments submitted
> : during this review period must be posted publically (SIC) and responded to
> : publicly.  If the review identifies significant deficiencies in the
> : document, such that revisions must be undertaken beyond minor editorial
> : changes or where revisions require changes to software based on the
> : document, the document must be returned to the Working Draft status.
>
>
>>From Arnold's message of Mar 18:
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>> Subject: STC V1.21 posted as PR
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>> (with apologies if you get multiple copies of this message)
>>
>> On the Ides of March, version 1.21 of STC has been posted as a
>> Proposed Recommendation.  It refers to two implementations that have
>> been published as notes: STC-X and STC-S.
>>
>> STC-X is the XML implementation that is contained in version 1.20 of
>> the schemata.  The version of the Note is 1.00 (maybe I should have
>> synchronized the versions...).
>>
>> STC-S is the (linear) string implementation that has also been known
>> as LinearSTC.
>>
>> As you may have suspected, there is a parallel with ADQL/X and ADQL/S
>> and my hope is that the corresponding STC versions will eventually
>> drop in.
>>
>> After some discussion with Marco, I decided to go with the '-', rather
>> than the '/', since that character lends itself better to inclusion in
>> file names.  Maybe VOQL wants to reconsider its naming?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>   - Arnold
>>
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