Are different versions of the same event unique?

[Norman Gray]

Matthew, hello.

On 2012 Mar 29, at 17:58, Matthew Graham wrote:

> Notifications of the same astronomical event need to be sent out in both VOEvent 1.1 and VOEvent 2.0 forms (just accept the premise and don't question it) - should these have the same identifier or different ones? The information content in both is the same - the events are identical except for such changes as required to comply with the different schema. Currently Scott is sending out events with different IVORNs:

I can't see there being any argument that these should be different identifiers.  The two things are the same event, so they should have the same name.  If there are two syntactically different representations of the event, then that's fine.

It's not as if the two things are even confusable.  If I recall correctly, the IVORN resolution protocol doesn't have any analogue of MIME types, but that's OK, since the document elements in each of the cases are in different namespaces.

Am I missing something?

All the best,

Norman


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