GRBs retractions - Param or value?

[Alasdair Allan]

Petr Kubanek wrote:
> Alasdair Allan wrote:
>> ..
>> For the most part they're astronomers who will view the messages  
>> as  text, plain ASCII text. If 1 in 10 end users actually use an  
>> XML  parser
>
> VOEvent is designed to integrate GCN 2, right?

Err, no. It while it will be used for GCN 2, if all we mange to do  
with VOEvent is build a GCN-replacement, then we'll have failed.  
VOEvent isn't about GCN, VOEvent is about building an extremely  
flexible message format to distribute event information.

Al.