<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear IVOA members,<br><br><div>The IVOA Data Model Working group announces the start of a new Request For<br>
Comments (<span class="">RFC</span>) period for the IVOA Spectral DM (SpectralDM - Version 2.0). <br><br></div><div>The level of TCG feedback was sufficient to return the document to RFC for general review.<br></div>The content of the document addresses the comments generated from the previous RFC/TCG<br>review as presented at the Sesto interop. It has not been updated to include new capabilities or spectral types (eg: Echelle). These will be included in a future update which will also migrate the model to be represented in terms of the Dataset and NDCube models currently in progress.<br></div><div><div><div><div><br>
The new <span class="">RFC</span> page is located at:<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SpectralDM2/Spectral2RFCr2" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SpectralDM2/Spectral2RFCr2</a><br>
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The latest version of the document is available at:<br>
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<a href="http://www.ivoa.net/documents/SpectralDM/20150528/index.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ivoa.net/documents/SpectralDM/20150528/index.html</a><br>
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The <span class="">RFC</span> period will run from 21 Sep 2015 - 16 Oct 2015. <br>Please make comments on the above <span class="">RFC</span> wiki page.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Mark Cresitello-Dittmar & Laurent Michel<br>
Data Model Working Group Chair & Vice-Chair<br>
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