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<p>Dear members of the Registry Working Group,</p>
<p>In the last months we have been working on a new version of
StandardsRegExt, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
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about IVOA standards, which not only allows to register IVOA
standard documents, but also </span><span style="color: rgb(0,
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be referred to in other standards. For instance a capability of
a VOResource's has an attribute </span><span style="color:
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value defined in the </span>StandardsRegExt schema of the
standard that this capability implements.<br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif;
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initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The main
issues with the current Recommendation 1.0 were discussed during
a talk at the Registry session during the Interop meeting last
May; see my slides at:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpMay2023Registry/InterOpMay2023Reg_StandardsRegExt-1.1.pdf">https://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/InterOpMay2023Registry/InterOpMay2023Reg_StandardsRegExt-1.1.pdf</a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif;
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those issues we have published </span><span style="color:
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!important; float: none;">on the IVOA web site</span> a
Working Draft for version 1.1:</span><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ivoa.net/documents/StandardsRegExt/20230921/index.html">https://ivoa.net/documents/StandardsRegExt/20230921/index.html</a></p>
<p>We're hereby asking you to please review that document, so that
we can go forward with a RFC period we hope to start at the
beginning of December.<br>
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<p>Feedback is welcome in this thread, in particular about the
changes introduced since the last version (see list below). <br>
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Thanks,<br>
<p>Renaud<br>
</p>
<p>Changes since Rec-1.0:<br>
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<li>Corrected and clarified some wordings.</li>
<li>Removed references to vstd:StandardKeyEnumeration (which is
now deprecated) from this document and associated schema.
Replaced computer language example by HiPS standard definition
example.</li>
<li>Added en and pen to the list of document types.</li>
<li>Adding regulations on record upload and key additions.</li>
<li>Requiring new keys to be all-lowercase in order to simplify
comparisons.</li>
<li>Ported to ivoatex. This entailed some re-shuffling the the
previous content.</li>
<li>Dropped the "example of a Standard resource that summarizes
this specification" (we have an example in the appendix already,
and it's not clear why there would be another one inline).</li>
<li>Dropped the in-document full schema (we now have auxiliaryurl,
and it's unclear whether it's a good idea to have a second copy
of the schema anyway).</li>
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