VOEvent 1.1 draft definition: please comment

[Roy Williams]

Dear VOEvent

I have been taking the lead on editing the specification document for  
VOEvent packets, and I would appreciate your eagle eyes reading and  
commenting. We hope to present this draft of VOEvent 1.1 to the IVOA  
meeting next month, and for this to be essentially the final  
definition, so we can move on with implementation, move on to  
building GCN2 based on this. So speak now or forever hold your peace!

Thank you for your invaluable help

Roy Williams
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The VOEvent definition is here:
http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaVOEvent/VOEvent-v1.1-060501.html

And the accompanying draft schema is here:
http://www.ivoa.net/internal/IVOA/IvoaVOEvent/VOEvent-v1.1-060425.xsd

Here is a summary of the deltas from the 1.0 specification:
-- definition of roles in transport network as Author, Publisher,  
Repository, Subscriber, and Relay/Broker/Filter
-- exposition of the interaction of VOEvent with VO registry;  
registration of Event, Author, Publisher and Repository.
-- event identifier is actually two identifiers, concatenation of  
publisher id and event label
-- clear adoption of  VO SpaceTime Coordinates for position/time,  
recommended parsing usage
-- curation metadata lined up with VO registry curation -- an Author  
is a registered organization
-- the Concept element redefined to hold controlled vocabulary to  
describe nature of event




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