VOEvent working draft published: version, param

Alasdair Allan aa at astro.ex.ac.uk
Fri Jun 24 19:21:06 PDT 2005


Alasdair Allan wrote:
> Rob Seaman wrote:
>> 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...

Actually lets be blunt. I would be totally unable to justify lending my 
support to such as standard.

Al.



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