new roadmap, meeting schedule

[Ray Plante]

Hi RWGers,

We need to fire up some activity in this working group, so I would like to 
propose an updated roadmap for upgrading to the new Registry Interface 
standard.  Those of you with registries, please comment on how do-able 
this will be for you.

    April 6:     Registry of Registries ready to validate registries
    April 1-30:  General upgrade efforts
    May 1:       Cross-site harvesting tests begin
    May 14:      IVOA Interop Meeting: discuss remaining problems
    May 30:      global "power-on" of new registries
    June 15:     target date for full stability.

As we have discussed, I would encourage registry administrators to keep 
your old registry interfaces (complete with the old VOResource format) 
running after the transition so that existing clients can continue to use 
them.  Note, however, that we do not expect to keep these old format 
records up to date.

Finally, please send me your suggestions for discussion topics for the May 
Interop meeting in China.  We will be setting the agenda very soon.

One more bit of news for those of you wondering if I fell off the edge of 
the world:  This month, I'm taking a much needed to "sabbatical" at CDS to 
work on VO topics with our colleagues there.  Thus, I'm looking forward to 
a break from the non-VO work that has kept me tied down.  So send me 
email!

cheers,
Ray