URI fragments in IVOA specifications

[Norman Gray]

Greetings, all.

Shortly before the Pune interop, I raised a question about the use (or arguably misuse) of URI fragments (the bits after the '#') in IVOA specifications.  I gave a short presentation to the TCG at Pune, and was left with an action to write something about this before the next interop.

I've duly done that, and put a short draft Note at

    http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/temp/uri-fragments.html

I propose some discussion of this on-list, with a view to preparing a final version for some sort of ratification (I hope) at Urbana.  I expect that it would be reasonable for this to remain a Note rather than anything more formal, but since I think the conclusions here should have some normative force on future recommendations, I wouldn't disagree if people think it should be promoted somehow.

I've announced this to the interop list only, because it's not clear to me which other list would be better for an announcement and any discussion.  Any suggestions?

Best wishes,

Norman
 

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