VOSpace vs WebDAV

[Arnold Rots]

Note that ADS serves as a registry to resolve all ivo://ADS... URIs.

  - Arnold

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On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Dave Morris <dave.morris at metagrid.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi GWS and Registry,
>
> [Again, followups on registry at ivoa.net]
>
>
> For Registry folks not on GWS:  There's been a discussion on
> the relation between various URI schemes and http over on the GWS
> mailing list, with this contribution from Norman:
>
> http://www.ivoa.net/pipermail/grid/2014-May/002587.html
>
> To which Paul replied:
>
> On 2014-05-16 08:17, Paul Harrison wrote:
>
>> .... The only nastiness that I can see is that unfortunately
>> IVORNs have a resource key that looks hierarchical (and must be so
>> interpreted according to the “/" rules for URIs) - it would be cleaner
>> if IVORNS where just ivo://authority/key with no extra hierarchical
>> parts - which actually represents what the “registry data model”  is.
>>
>
> Totally agree.
> If we could do this, then the world would be a much much happier place.
>
>     * It would make 'ivo://' URI parsers much simpler to write
>     * We would no longer need the non standard '!' delimiter in 'vos://'
> URIs
>     * We could begin to talk about using '/' to delimit "objects within
> resources"
>
> Is now the right time to fix this ?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
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> Dave Morris
> Software Developer
> Wide Field Astronomy Unit
> Institute for Astronomy
> University of Edinburgh
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>
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