VOEvent v1.0 released

[Frederic V. Hessman]

On 11 Jul 2005, at 12:10 pm, Rob Seaman wrote:

> Version 1.0 of the VOEvent specification has been uploaded to the  
> twiki:
>
>     http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaVOEvent
>
> along with revised copies of the three examples (simple, typical,  
> indirection packet), a v1.0 schema that will validate the examples,  
> and a document model diagram that may help clarify future discussions.  
>  In a neat demonstration of reality informing previous virtual  
> discussion, the server hosting the STC schema is down currently - but  
> both Oxygen and the W3C XML Schema Validator  
> (http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv) repeatedly validated (or  
> failed to, as appropriate) various test packets earlier today.  A  
> 24/7/365 sky monitoring program obviously cannot afford dependencies  
> on the health of external servers.  We might want to open the  
> post-v1.0 era seeking comments on how best to serve the schemata.

Problems of this sort are not at all unexpected : there's no way I  
would operate a VOEvent-aware project without
mirroring the schemata in some fashion or another (VOEvent, STC, RTML,  
....).  Thus, this is an important example of use,
but no real problem.

Rick

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