An STC "when" and "where" example

[Arnold Rots]

Apologies, I realized that I gave only half an answer in my previous
message.  
What I heard you say is that a VOEvent service should be allowed to
provide the amount of detail that it feels like providing, and if that
makes it useless to a client, that's too bad for the client and (s)he
should just ignore the event.

What I was saying is that that is not acceptable; it does not conform
with accepted astronomical practice, as evidenced, for instance, by
the requirements for IAU Circulars.

  - Arnold


Arnold Rots wrote:
> We are not talking about webservices in the abstract, but about an
> astronomical service where it is, in my view, the duty of the server
> to provide all available detail that is scientifically significant.
> 
> This is generally accepted practice, analogous to what is, for
> instance, required for IAU Circulars.  See, e.g.,
> 
> 	http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/DiscoveryInfo.html
> 
>   - Arnold
> 
> 
> Alasdair Allan wrote:
> > 
> > Arnold Rots wrote:
> > > I must say I take exception to an attitude that says: if you need more 
> > > details than I bother to provide, that's tough luck for you - don't 
> > > use my events.
> > 
> > Err, you're taking exception to it? It's not an attitude, it's a fairly 
> > fundamental underlying assumption for several of the more popular 
> > design patterns used in implementing web service architectures.
> > 
> > Sorry, but you've managed to totally confuse me, what do you object to?
> > 
> > Al.
> > 
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Arnold H. Rots                                Chandra X-ray Science Center
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory                tel:  +1 617 496 7701
60 Garden Street, MS 67                              fax:  +1 617 495 7356
Cambridge, MA 02138                             arots at head.cfa.harvard.edu
USA                                     http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/
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