Difference: IvoaExecMeetingTM131 (6 vs. 7)

Date: Monday, February 2, 2026

Time: 20:00 UTC

Zoom Link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62257207376?pwd=h6391EcXq0bPD60OlxjbcouTQ374K1.1

Contents

Agenda

1. Roll Call and Agenda
2. Review and approval of TM130 Minutes
3. Review of Actions for TM131
   
4. IGs' role among TCG and CSP activities (follow-on to TM127.1 action)
5. Exec Committee Representatives & Delegates
6. AI Mode for Exec Meetings
7. Future Interop meetings

• • Northern Fall 2026 (Perth; 1-5 November)

1. New IVOA Recommendations: Approval
2. Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
3. TCG Report
4. CSP Report
5. IAU General Assembly/Working Group Report
6. IVOA Website [New Standing Item]
   • Status and roadmap for new website
   • Draft new website available: https://webtest.ivoa.info/
   • Git Hub repository: https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web
     • Bug reporting and change requests: https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web/issues
7. Date of next Exec meeting
8. AOB
9. Review of new actions

Reports from the Projects

NOVA (Argentina)

ArVO (Armenia)

AstroGrid (United Kingdom)

ASVO (Australia)

BRAVO (Brazil)

China-VO

CVO (Canada)

ESA (Europe)

Euro-VO (Europe)

GAVO (Germany)

JVO (Japan)

Kazakhstan VO

NLVO (Netherlands)

OV-France

• The annual French national meeting of VO will be held in Paris from March 9 to 11. We expect a large number of participants. https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/38441/
• The OV-France yearly call for proposals is now closed. We have seen a significant increase in the number of applications, partly associated to the next interop meeting happening in France.

RVO (Russia)

SA^3 (South Africa)

SKAO (Square Kilometre Array Observatory; Australia & South Africa)

SVO (Spain)

UkrVO (Ukraine)

USVOA (United States)

The USVOA organized a splinter session at the AAS January meeting in Phoenix AZ. Talks included general information on the IVOA (Pepi Fabbiano, SAO), scientific impact of VO standards (Bruce Berriman, CalTech), Rubin & VO standards (Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, CalTech), and ADS/SciX new developments (Alberto Accomazzi, SAO). Robert Nicutta (NOIRlab) chaired a discussion with the audience. A popular request was to link implementation examples to the IVOA standards in the web page.

Pepi, Bruce, Vandana (CalTech), Robert & Alberto also took part in the AAS data roundtable organized by the IOP (Astrophysical Journals).

Alyssa Goodman (Harvard) led a memorial celebration of Jonathan Fay (WWT developer).

VO-India

VObs.it (Italy)

• planning a VO School to happen at the end of 2026

Report from the TCG

• (communications):
  • astronet.ru publishing registry issue: solved/re-entered (check undergoing, positive so far)
  • Radio IG deputy: still open
  • Edu IG deputy: resigned, position to be considered open
• expiration/extension(s) happening in Northern Spring 2026 (besides open positions)
  • Registry WG: no extension
  • DCP IG: no extension
  • DM WG, DSP WG, Semantics WG: extension possible
  • TD IG deputy, Operations IG, SS IG deputy, Radio IG chair: extension possible
• 2 TCG meetings since Görlitz (Dec. 11th, Jan. 28th)
  • namely: wrap up interop and new year restart
• animated discussion on MANGO RFC in December (touching DM role in the ecosystem), RFC sped up afterwards (i.e. January)
  • other RFCs going on: (closing) VOEvent-2.1, DALI-1.2, DocRegExt -1.0
• continuous discussion on DM WG role and connection to other WG/IGs
  • restarted an effort to try to have a workshop/hands on session to clarify/improve
  • it would be useful to have Exec involve relevant projects/activities in this effort
• PEN review for DataOrigin -1.2: progressing, opens the (can of worms) of EN reasons to be
• DocStd rework slowly continues: mostly fixing clear issues, not a full rework

• IGs coordination role in TCG/CSP: only alerted, not discussed

IAU Working Group Report

Report from the CSP