Beyond the draft proposal

[Rob Seaman]

> In Seamanish: The sound of the event-driven hordes stampeding to the  
> cooling waters of semantic vocabularies has been not unlike that of  
> a dripping faucet.

Indeed - and the sound we want is more like a largish bloat of  
wallowing hippos.

> I wasn't suggesting that I liked "JohnsonPhotometry" or "rMagnitude"  
> - they came from the IAU thesaurus.

I'd keep the IAU-T as it has been handed to us (delta some modest  
corrections).

> Frankly, I'd generally prefer Rob's choice of terms.

As would all right thinking individuals.

> Another sign that VOEvent could do us all a service by forcing down- 
> to-earth solutions to down-to-earth problems.

Start bellowing you mighty river Clydesdales!

- Rob