Identifiers 1.1

[Marco C. Leoni]

Hi Ray,
    in order to have clearer document ditribution, it was decided to 
avoid the use of the "official" IVOA header in the documents until those 
are published in ivoa.net/Documents sections.
Therefore, could you please use the template at 
http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/templates/wg_id_tmpl.html: I will put all 
the necessary stuff in before publication.

Thanks a lot.


Cheers,
    Marco



Ray Plante wrote:

>Hi RWGers,
>
>I have created a v1.1 Working Draft of the Identifier standard, which can 
>be reviewed at 
>
>   http://nvo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VO/WD-ID-20040209.html
>
>The changes from the current PR are minor:
>
>  1. The prohibition of using "+" and "=" within Identifier components has 
>     been dropped.  CDS uses these characters in their local identifiers;
>     by removing this prohibition, they can reuse their local identifiers 
>     in their IVOA IDs.  There appears no compelling reason not to 
>     prohibit these characters at the inconvenience of data providers.  
>
>  2. Examples and comments have been modified to leave out fields 
>     like ".edu" and ".org" from the example authority IDs to be 
>     consistant with current practice (which discourages the use of 
>     DNS-like names).
>
>  3. The sample XML schema was updated according to 1.  A bug was also 
>     corrected in the AuthorityIDType pattern, and the namespace was 
>     updated to match current IVOA conventions.  Since we are not 
>     currently planning to submit the schema as a separate standard (it is 
>     incorporated into VOResource), this sample schema has no bearing on 
>     the detailed specification--it is simply a reference believed to be 
>     compliant.  
>
>With the WG's permission, I would like to submit this working draft.  I 
>see little reason why we can't rapidly move this version through WD to 
>PR status by the interop meeting (thereby deprecating v1.0).  
>
>thanks,
>Ray
>