Footprint Access Protocol (FAP)

Contents

This page is for posting materials and links relevant to the development of a standard footprint access protocol.

Documents

The DAL group is currently working on technical note definition for use of basic footprint region definition to be used in the Simple DAL protocols. A summary of discussion for the near term use of footprint regions with DAL service protocols is available DALBasicFootprint here.

There in preliminary work in the development of a working draft for the Footprint Access Protocol. The working draft document is currently targeting the May 2012 IVOA interop to present to the DAL working group.

Standards Reference Implementations

STC parsers

Use Cases

Links

• NVO Footprint Portal
• HLA Portal
• STC descriptions (version 1.3)
• STC Standard (version 1.33)
• STC/X
• STC/S
• IVOA Aladin Footprint Note Link TBD