VOEvent, now an IVOA Recommendation

[Roy Williams]

To the VOEvent community

On behalf of the IVOA Executive Committee, I am pleased to announce that the VOEvent 1.1 
specification has reached the Recommendation status from the International Virtual Observatory 
Alliace, the highest level of standard. This means that many people have examined and approved the 
standard, and the specification and schema are now to be considered an international standard.

This means that future changes will be minor, and certainly there will be no changes that invalidate 
efforts based on 1.1. It means that you can develop code and networks that use VOEvent without fear 
of arbitrary changes.

Thank you for your support in getting this important standard accepted. And now is the time for 
worldwide adoption, for creation of a global virtual telescope for exploration of the transient sky. 
To infinity -- and beyond!

Roy Williams
Chair, IVOA VOEvent working group