URI fragments in IVOA specifications

[Norman Gray]

Greetings, again.

On 2012 Apr 4, at 14:05, Norman Gray wrote:

> 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.
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> I've duly done that, and put a short draft Note at
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>    http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/temp/uri-fragments.html
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> 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.

As a result of (off-list) comments from Guy Rixon, Mark Taylor and Markus Demleitner, I've made some adjustments to the text, and put up a v0.2 at the same URI.

Thanks, Guy, Mark and Markus.  I'm very interested to hear further comments, on-list or off.

Best wishes,

Norman


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