VOEvent transport protocol Working draft online

[Rob Seaman]

Howdy,

Good to see motion on this. “Long period of maturation” is about the most polite way this has ever been stated ;-)

My only comments on the draft are:

1) It is a lot more mature than the current version v0.1 claims. Please increment to v1.0, v0.99 or whatever.

2) Any path forward will likely include the transport of diverse message types over the same channel, whether these are portfolios, containers, or even non-IVOA messages. For instance, IAU Comm-20 adopted a new XML-based MPC astrometry format at the GA:

	http://minorplanetcenter.net/iau/info/IAU2015_ADES.pdf

and it is easy to imagine interleaving VOEvent messages with MPC messages. Perhaps a paragraph explicitly supporting such usage can be drafted?

To provide context for the DAL group, VTP "formalizes a TCP-based protocol”, not THE transport protocol. Diverse communications channels have always been anticipated for VOEvent and other alert messages.

Rob
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> On Sep 18, 2015, at 7:00 AM, François Bonnarel <francois.bonnarel at astro.unistra.fr> wrote:
> 
> Dear interop members,
> 
>     After a long period of maturation in the Time Domain Interest Group, it's now time to move the discussion on "VOEvent Transport protocol" to the DAL mailing list. The Working draft can be found here http://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOEventTransport/
> 
> Best regards
> François Bonnarel and Marco Molinaro for the DAL WG
> John Swinbank and Mike Fitzpatrick for the Time Domain IG