MOC v1.0: Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments

This page contains public discussion of the MOC v1.0 Proposed Recommendation. The RFC is announced on 7 February 2014 and will run until 7 March 2014.

Latest version of MOC v1.0 can be found at:

• http://ivoa.net/documents/MOC/20140106/index.html

Reference Interoperable Implementations

MOC 1.0 has been implemented in the following software items :

• MOC Java API integrated in STIL, TOPCAT [starlink], and Aladin (since v7.5)[CDS]
• Sitools2/MIZAR [CNES]: Javascript implementation of MOC loading function and displaying function (sources).

Comments from the IVOA Community during RFC period: 7 February 2014 - 7 March 2014

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• Comment by EnriqueSolano
  • Is MOC intersection and/or union possible from Aladin/TOPCAT? If not, are there plans to implement this capability in the near future?
    • Aladin yes in v8 (Coverage menu); TOPCAT/STILTS no, but maybe one day
  • What is the meaning of the coloured figure that appears in the label of the tables? (Appendix B)
    • It is just a density map illustrating the density of the sources. -- Pierre
  • Pag. 14, Sec 3.3 "MOC Examples"
    • Should you want to include examples of data centres (others than VizieR) providing MOCs, you can point at our GTC and Calar Alto archives:
    • http://gtc.sdc.cab.inta-csic.es/gtc/jsp/searchform.jsp
    • http://caha.sdc.cab.inta-csic.es/calto/jsp/searchform.jsp
• Response (by WikiName)

Following Enrique's comments, we have decided it's best not to list any MOC-producing services or applications in the standard text, so sections 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 of the 20120106 version have been removed. The items from here (including VizieR MOCs) are now listed instead, alongside the SVO MOC-producing services, on the MocInfo wiki page. The resulting version (no other changes) is PR-MOC-1.0-20140310.

-- MarkTaylor - 2014-03-10