S3/SimDAP

[Herve Wozniak]

Dear colleagues,

First let me warmly thank those of you who have participated in the 
'four' theory sessions during the last INTEROP. I guess we have made 
some progresses useful for the theory. I also expect we will have 
fruitful discussions in preparation to the next step, the INTEROP in 
Strasbourg. Indeed, I believe we need to have a lot of interaction 
between the INTEROP to allow a smooth progress. The theory at ivoa.net 
mailing list is a useful tool because mails are archived  keeping track 
of the discussions, but telecons have proven to be also very fruitful to 
understand some tricky points.

The first point I'd like to address is the possible/likely converge 
between S3 and SimDAP. Even if we ended up with two separated access 
protocols, I still quite confident that working all together it would be 
possible, with a minimal effort and not too additional complexity, to 
handle all kinds of simulations. For instance, the cutout service is 
already optional in the proposal made by Claudio and Rick (cf Rick' 
presentation on thursday) so this is no more a barrier to microsims.

Having the 'microsimulation' session just a few hours before the closure 
of the interop hadn't allow for the necessary extensive discussions, so 
I suggest to start now thinking about this on the theory mailing list 
and maybe during a telecon (date to be defined).

I guess the bunch of people that could discuss all together should 
include Claudio, Rick and Rodrigo as a minimum. Maybe Franck, as another 
example of microsimulation (photodissociation models). I know Franck 
would like to implement a SimDAP on PDR. Of course, I'd be happy to 
participate as much as possible to the discussions.

Let me know what's your feeling about this.

Best regards,
Herve

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Herve WOZNIAK

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