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.

Discussions:

• Meeting Notes - Footprint & Coverage Discussion (March 11, 2013)

Standards Reference Implementations

STC"> Parsers for STC

• source page listing

Use Cases

Links

• NVO Footprint Portal
• HLA Portal
• Chandra Footprint Service
• STC descriptions (version 1.3*)
• STC Standard (version 1.33)
• STC-X
• STC-S
• CDS Footprint Services with MOC
• IVOA Aladin Footprint Note Link TBD

• FootprintsTelecon_2013Mar11.txt: Footprint Telecon - General Coverage Topics