New version of the UCD List Maintenance standard - comments by June 23rd

[Francoise Genova]

Dear colleagues,

As discussed during the Semantics session in Shanghai, Mireille and I 
have been working on a new version (V2.0) of the UCD List Maintenance 
Standard. The basis discussed in Shanghai is to take advantage of the 
newly introduced IVOA Endorsed Note process (see 
http://www.ivoa.net/documents/DocStd/20170517) to facilitate the updates 
of the UCD vocabulary. It is proposed to deprecate the UCD list from 
Recommendation to Endorsed Notes, which can be updated to the next 
version by TCG agreement instead of going through the whole 
standardisation process. The Shanghai session participants insisted on 
the need that the updates are made as quickly as possible, and the new 
process allows to do that while keeping a formal procedure and cross-WG 
check. Please note that Endorsed Notes, like Recommendations, are 
published in the ADS, which ensures their visibility.

I posted the draft UCD List Maintenance Note V2.0 implementing this new 
process on the Semantics page, together with a version in track change 
mode from the current V1.20, to initiate the discussion "in WG". The 
documents are here:

http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaSemantics/Note-UCDlistMaintenance-2.0-20170602.pdf 
(also attached to this email)
http://wiki.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaSemantics/Note-UCDlistMaintenance-2.0-20170602_withchanges.pdf

Your comments are very welcome. Mireille and I would like to be able to 
proceed as swiftly as possible, so we invite you to provide your 
comments by 23 June so that we can deal with them before the Northern 
hemisphere vacation period.

Cheers

Francoise

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