RM V1.1: or V2.0?

[Guy Rixon]

Tony,

presuming that the RM v1.1 document exists in a satisfactory state - i.e. that
promoting RM 1.1 involves little effort - I'd say do both 1.1 and 2.0 (~as
stated) in parallel. I think the 2.0 standard could take a while in debate and
the 1.1 standard can go through in the meantime.

Guy

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Tony Linde wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In my usual slack manner, I've still not got around to submitting RM v1.1
> for comments and REC status:
>   http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/RM.html
>
> It is too late now to get it through before the Interop meeting. But I was
> wondering if we still want to push it forward now.
>
> If all goes well at the Interop meeting, we should have the data models for
> Registry services and applications finalized and will be looking to put that
> into a document. Should we make that RM v2.0?
>
> I was thinking that RM v2.0 could incorporate current RM information and add
> to it the data models which will be discussed and agreed in Victoria. This
> will be supplemented with metadata schemas expressing the xml implementation
> of the metadata. So we could have the structure of RM v2.0 as:
>
> 1. Introduction
> 2. Philosophy of VObs Registries
> 3. Structure of Registry metadata
> 4. Common registry metadata
> 5. Services metadata
> 6. Applications metadata
> 7. Rules for extensions
> A. UML models
> B. XML Schemas
>
> This will give a complete expression of the registry metadata in a single
> document and make it easier for people to understand the whole of the
> Registry. It will be v2.0 to avoid confusion about the current versions and
> to signal the marked advance. Separate documents would then be provided for
> the Registry Interface (since this is likely to change out of step with the
> metadata) and Extension schemas.
>
> I don't expect us to decide this here but to include it in the 'way forward'
> discussions at the end of the Interop session. Anyone not going to be there
> can send comments to me and I'll represent them at the meeting.
>
> Cheers,
> Tony.
>
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