VOEvent priorities

[Alasdair Allan]

Dick,

> Well, it's easy to think of astrophysically motivated examples of timeseries that are more than simple lists of flux vs. time coordinate...

Yup, and that's pretty much why we've been stalled on this since the first HTU meeting, despite all signing the napkin back in Tucson, we've been talking about it for two years since then. 

> I wonder how these more complex representations of time-variable phenomena might be represented, even if the Working Group is not yet ready to write the specification.

Agreed, interesting. But possibly not a topic for this working group. We're in need of a specific engineering solution to a stated problem. That's including light curves (flux vs time) inside our event packets.

> Or to put it another way, can we see how the proposed specification might be generalized at some later time to incorporate more complex data objects?

Perhaps a better topic for the DAL group.

Al.