<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px">Dear IVOA members,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px">The Applications Working Group is pleased to announce that the VOTable 1.5 Proposed Recommendation is starting the Request for Comments from the IVOA community.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif">VOTable is a standard for the interchange of data represented as a set of tables, and includes both table metadata and the data itself. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif">The main purpose of VOTable 1.5 is to support </span><code><font color="#000000">refposition</font></code><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif"> attribute analogous to TIMESYS.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px">The <span class="gmail-il">RFC</span> page can be found here:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOTable15RFC">https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOTable15RFC</a></span></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><div class="gmail-apple-rich-link" role="link" style="display:inline-block"></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px"> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px">And the document to be reviewed can be found at:<u></u><u></u></p><ul type="disc" style="font-size:12px;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px">IVOA repository<u></u><ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><div><div><a href="https://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOTable/20240213/">https://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOTable/20240213/</a><div class="gmail-apple-rich-link" role="link" style="display:inline-block"></div></div><div class="gmail-apple-rich-link" role="link" style="display:inline-block"></div></div><br></li></ul></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px">Git Repository (Development Version)<u></u><ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><div><div><a href="https://github.com/ivoa-std/VOTable">https://github.com/ivoa-std/VOTable</a></div></div></li></ul></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thank you in advance for your comments,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pierre Le Sidaner (Apps Chair) & Adrian Damian (Apps Vice-Chair)</font></p></div>