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*IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM131)*

<b>Date: </b>Monday, February 2, 2026

<b>Time: </b>20:00 UTC

*Zoom Link: <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody" href="https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62257207376?pwd=h6391EcXq0bPD60OlxjbcouTQ374K1.1" title="https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62257207376?pwd=h6391EcXq0bPD60OlxjbcouTQ374K1.1">https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62257207376?pwd=h6391EcXq0bPD60OlxjbcouTQ374K1.1</a>* [[https://aao.zoom.us/j/84831315252?pwd=TjJZb0VBRVgxcDZ1cVVqTENZMWNMZz09][<br />]]

*Contents*

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---++ Agenda
   1 Roll Call and Agenda
   1 Review and approval of TM130 Minutes
   1 Review of Actions for TM131 [[%PUBURL%/IVOA/IvoaExecMeetingTM123/ACTIONS_for_TM123.pdf][<br />]]
   1 IGs' role among TCG and CSP activities (follow-on to TM127.1 action)
   1 Exec Committee Representatives & Delegates
   1 AI Mode for Exec Meetings
   1 Future Interop meetings
      * Northern Spring 2026 (Strasbourg; 8-11 June)
      * Northern Fall 2026 (Perth; 1-5 November)
   1 New IVOA Recommendations: Approval
   1 Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
   1 TCG Report
   1 CSP Report
   1 IAU General Assembly/Working Group Report
   1 IVOA Website [New Standing Item]
      * Status and roadmap for new website
      * Draft new website available: <a href="https://webtest.ivoa.info" target="_blank">https://webtest.ivoa.info</a>/
      * Git Hub repository: [[https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web]]
         * Bug reporting and change requests: [[https://github.com/ivoa/ivoa-web/issues]]
   1 Date of next Exec meeting
   1 AOB
   1 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
Topic revision: r6 - 2026-01-30 - MarcoMolinaro
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