VOEvent working draft published: version, param

[Alasdair Allan]

Rob Seaman wrote:
> VOEvent has been a world class exercise in building a compromise.

I believe that to be a serious understatement!

> It is precisely the highly experienced "writers of transmitting server 
> software and receiving applications" who I expect would be least 
> receptive at this point of backpedaling toward a VOEvent specification 
> that requires an explicit new extension schema be written for each 
> instrument supported.

Yup, the current standard "as is" is fairly slim line, adding something 
like new extension schema on a per instrument basis would be a total 
nightmare. No way...

Al.