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*IVOA Executive Committee Meeting (TM132)*

<strong>Date: </strong>Wednesday, April 15, 2026

<strong>Time: </strong>13:00 UTC

<strong>Zoom Link: <span data-mce-mark="1"><span data-mce-mark="1"><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"></span></span>https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62257207376?pwd=h6391EcXq0bPD60OlxjbcouTQ374K1.1<span data-mce-mark="1"><span data-mce-mark="1"></a></span></span></strong> [[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 TM131 Minutes
   1 Review of Actions for TM132
   1 Exec Membership Update
      * Recognition of Joachim Wambsganss's retirement and his service to IVOA and GAVO
      * Recognition of Markus Demleitner representing GAVO until GAVO activities are transitioned to the German Centre for Astrophysics at Goerlitz (DZA) 
   1 Update on IVOA as a Global Open Research Commons (GORC) of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 
   1 Future Interop meetings
      * Northern Spring 2026 (Strasbourg; 7-12 June)
      * Northern Fall 2026 (Perth; ADASS: 1-5 November; Interop: 5-8 November--Exec & TCG meeting on 5th)
   1 New IVOA Recommendations: Approval
      * VOEvent-2.1
      * MANGO-1.0
      * DocRegExt -1.0
   1 Project Reports [Significant Events Only]
   1 TCG Report
   1 Rotation of TCG roles
      * Registry WG: No extensions
      * DCP IG: No extensions
      * DM, DSP, Semantics WG: Extendable
      * Radio Chair: Extendable
      * Radio VC: Missing
      * Education IG Chair: Vote on the proposed nominee?
   1 CSP Report
   1 IAU General Assembly/Working Group Report
   1 IVOA Website [New Standing Item]
      * Status of 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
   * The ADASS POC confirmed that the ADASS 2028 will be hosted by China-VO in Beijing. Welcome back to Beijing 20 years after the 2007 IVOA meeting.
---+++ CVO (Canada)

---+++ ESA (Europe)

---+++ Euro-VO (Europe)

---+++ GAVO (Germany)

---+++ JVO (Japan)

---+++ Kazakhstan VO

---+++ NLVO (Netherlands)

---+++ OV-France
   * 
---+++ RVO (Russia)

---+++ SA^3 (South Africa)

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

---+++ SVO (Spain)

---+++ UkrVO (Ukraine)

---+++ USVOA (United States)

---+++ VO-India

---+++ VObs.it (Italy)

   * IVOA has been presented/reported about, including a sort-of newcomers session at the INAF Computation and Data Unit General Assembly

---+++ Report from the TCG

   * Feb. 26th, Mar. 31st vconfs
   * reviewed VOEvent-2.1, MANGO-1.0, DocRegExt -1.0 RCF status --&gt; forwarded to Exec for approval
      * DALI-1.2 still in RFC
      * works progressing on other documents: VOTable, VODataService, and the ObsCore & connected notes
   * DataOrigin -1.2 has been Endorsed by TCG (document should appear soon online)
      * discussing it, EN _raison d'etre_ and (optional) review process turned out to be unclear: needs discussion (DocStd based)
   * connection among DM and the other WGs still needs to be discussed, a workshop seems unfeasible, need to find a strategy there
   * interop preparation: ongoing (quite a bunch of plenaries)
      * maybe need a 2nd announcement?
   * IGs to CSP interfacing: some discussion, some feedback (but it's not in TCG hands)
   * TCG members have been alerted about the expiration dates of some of the roles

---+++ IAU Working Group Report

---+++ Report from the CSP
Topic revision: r4 - 2026-04-14 - MarcyHarbut
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