TCG Meeting - face-to-face - November 13 2025 @ 14:30 (Görlitz, Germany timezone) / 13:30 UTC

Attendees

• Attendees :

• Regrets :

• vconf link: zoom room

Actions

• OPEN - put together a template for call for proposals; model after DAL (postponed)
• NEW - (ALL) brainstorm within groups about contributing to the data model usage hack-a-thon/workshop proposal (OPEN but postponed)
• NEW - put issues on DocStd git repo and work towards a F2F meeting with TCG (interop?) (ongoing)

Agenda

• Review actions

• IVOA Northern Fall November 2025 Interoperability Meeting
  • Görlitz (Germany) - starting tomorrow
    • program: InterOpNov2025 (program preparation: ProgramPrep2025B)
    • website: https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/3325/
    • ADASS XXXV website: https://indico.dzastro.de/event/4/
  • quick final review of the scheduled sessions
  • highlights
  • expected interop outcomes

• (standing item): documents on track
  • RFC
    • VOEvent-2.1 - RFC page
      • recap status and agreement on not overdoing RFCs
    • StandardsRegExt-1.1 RFC page: REC as of 2025-10-20. Thanks everybody!
      • simple bullet to check the REC is visible from the repo
    • MANGO-1.0 RFC page: RFC status
    • DALI-1.2 RFC page: summary & start review
  • EN
    • DataOrigin-1.1 in in PEN status (PEN doc): review and/or vote
  • Errata
    • foreseen a SimpleDALRegExt one (clarifying references to ConeSearch)
  • VEPs
    • VEP-018?
      • exists only as "new", maybe too early

• • • any?
    • vocabularies (only if news to report)
      • Calibration levels ( DRAFT)
      • Object types ( DRAFT)
      • https://github.com/ivoa-std/SLAP2/pull/1 -> UCDs (https://github.com/ivoa-std/SLAP2/pull/1)
      • "vocabularize" UCDs

• looking at roadmaps:
  • Apps & tessellation formats: ecosystem status
  • DAL: DALI-1.2 in RFC, what's next
  • DM, and HE, Radio, TD: ObsCore update and extensions expectations
    • + too many activities to follow?
  • DSP: ExecutionBroker & VOAuth (100%?)
  • Registry: simulations & registry + uptake of tesseled-discrete coverages
  • Semantics: internals (VEPs, vocabularies, UCDs) & externals (SPASE and general ontologies visibility)
  • (IGs: I'm not skipping your roadmaps, just trying to let everybody be aligned)

• (long standing topics reminder)
  • astronet.ru
    • MM will report last vconf decision at Exec (in a couple of hours)
  • positions still TBF: Radio IG vice-chair role is open
  • new website: report
  • IGs & TCG/CSP interfacing

* Try to prepare your roadmaps (2025BRoadmap) during the meeting

• • or: suggest a better way to build Roadmap(s)

• Date for the next TCG
  • what about a last vconf in 2025 to wrap up Görlitz? does Thursday 11 December @ 21 UTC sound good?

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