RegistryInterface101RFC < IVOA

---++ Registry Interface Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments

This document will act as RFC center for the 
Proposed Recommendation entitled "IVOA Registry Interfaces, version 1.01".  The specification can be found at <a href="http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/cover/RegistryInterface-20080929.html">http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/cover/RegistryInterface-20080929.html</a> (<a href="http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/PR/ReR/RegistryInterface-20080929.pdf">PDF</a>, <a href="http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/PR/ReR/RegistryInterface-20080929.doc"> DOC</a>).

Review period:  30 September 2008 to 9 November 2008

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---++ Comments from the Community

---+++ IVOA.NoelWinstanley 7 Oct 2008
   * The =Search= operation requires the query to be in ADQL/x format. However, recent versions of the ADQL specification (including the PR) makes no mention of ADQL/x, only the ADQL/s form. The reference given by the Registry Interface document for ADQL/x is to a 2004 working draft, which must have been superceded by the ADQL PR (the URL is broken, BTW). 
      * Is it sensible to base the main querying interface to registry on a 'dead' language?
      * Or is =KeywordSearch= the function that's recommended to be actually used in practice? 
      * Should the =Search= function be marked as deprecated / liable to change ?
      * Should the =Search= function be marked as optional, and support described in the registry, as for =XQuerySearch=? 
      * Should the 'Search' function be altered to accept adql/s instead?

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