VOEvent, unique id's, and IVORNs

[Arnold Rots]

Note that, from a formal definition point of view, there is no need to
put location information in the authority Id, but neither is it
prohibited.
What I am saying is that ivo://estar/, rather than ivo://uk.org.estar/
would be legal, too.
(For the bibliographic dataset Ids the authority Id is ivo://ADS)
It all depends on what is (going to be) in the registry.

I don't mean to disrupt or confuse the current discussion, but offer
this as a footnote for completeness, so don't let this distract you.
But be aware that not all IVOA authority identifiers will look like
what you are using.

  - Arnold

Alasdair Allan wrote:
> 
> Matthew Graham wrote:
> > Alasdair Allan wrote:
> >> Sounds like a reasonable plan, however in the meantime we should fix 
> >> our IVORNs to look like this,
> >>
> >>   <VOEvent id="ivo://uk.org.estar/estar.ex#test/7046.81"
> >
> > ...your proposed solution is correct.
> 
> Okay, there are currently only 3 of us actually generating VOEvent XML 
> in anger. Yourselves at Caltech, Robert at Los Alamos, and myself at 
> Exeter. Shall we all agree to fix our messages, in the very near 
> future, so that the ID's reflect the (correct) scheme above?
> 
> Al.
> 
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