IVOA Identifiers V1.1 RFC

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Community Comments

• First sample comment (by TonyLinde): ...
  • Response (by authorname): ...

• At the Victoria interop I think we agreed that it would be a good idea to explicitly ban the use of "!" in identifiers, as that would have a special meaning in the VOSpace vos: scheme. The document as stands does not include this ban.
  • Accepted. The ban has been included as requested. (RayPlante - 22 Aug 2006)

-- PaulHarrison - 27 Jun 2006

Comments from the Technical Coordination Group

TWG members should add their comments under their name. The deadline for comments is 27 Oct 2006.

Mark Allen (Applications IG)

I approve.

Minor textual comments:

Introduction:

of the first type describe above...

-> of the first type described above...

3.1.1

Incomplete sentence in the Note:

...;this practice has the advantage of reducing the probability that two authority ID.

3.3.2 Typo in the Note: concatonated -> concatenated

Francoise Genova (Data Curation & Preservation IG)

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Bob Hanisch (Standards & Documentation WG)

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Gerard Lemson (Theory IG)

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Jonathan MacDowell (Data Models WG)

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Reagan Moore (Data Curation & Preservation IG)

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Francois Ochsenbein (VOTable WG)

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Pedro Osuna (VOQL WG)

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Ray Plante (Resource Registry WG)

Submitting Chair: no comments.

Andrea Priete-Martinez (Semantics WG)

I approve.

Guy Rixon (Grid & Web Services WG)

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Doug Tody (Data Access Layer WG)

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Nic Walton (GGF Astro-RG)

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Roy Williams (VOEvent WG)

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