VOEvent v2.0 Proposed Recommendation: Request for Comments

This document will act as RFC center for the VOEvent V2.0 Proposed Recommendation:

• Specification at http://ivoa.net/Documents/VOEvent/20110402/PR-VOEvent-2.0-20110402.html
• or PDF at http://ivoa.net/Documents/VOEvent/20110402/PR-VOEvent-2.0-20110402.pdf
• XML Schema at http://ivoa.net/xml/VOEvent/VOEvent-v2.0.xsd

RFC Review Period: 8 Apr 2011 - 6 May 2011 (nominally 4 weeks, may extend longer)

TCG Review Period: 6 May 2011 - until concluded

Comments from the IVOA Community

WilliamOMullane

1. The first thing which caught my eye was WHO in section 3. > /Identification of scientifically responsibel Author/

apart from the spelling error for Gaia of course this may not make sense. Hence also 3.2.1. This would more likely be a helpdesk or some such for Gaia not an individual.

2. in 3.4.2 Observatory_Location You should consider adding "L2 = within 150000 KM of Earth Sun Lagrange Point 2" or something. There are enough missions going out there even if you suggest space missions can construct their own complex location later.

-- WilliamOMullane - 2011-04-08

Reply:

1) This appears to reference an old version of the PR. The current wording is "The Author IVORN element contains the identifier of the organization responsible for making the VOEvent available." Spelling must have been previously corrected

2) There has been some discussion of this point on the VOEvent WG mailing list. Not obvious if any change is required to the v2.0 PR as long as the schema supports this feature.

-- RobSeaman - 2011-04-24

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Comments from the Technical Coordination Group

TCG members should add any comments under their name.

TCG Chair & Vice Chair (Christophe Arviset, Séverin Gaudet)

IVOA Chair & Vice Chair (Paolo Padovani, Ajit Kembhavi)

Applications Working Group (Tom Mcglynn, Mark Taylor)

Data Access Layer Working Group (Patrick Dowler, Mike Fitzpatrick)

Data Model Working Group (Mireille Louys, Jesus Salgado)

Grid & Web Services Working Group (Matthew Graham, Paul Harrison)

Registry Working Group (Gretchen Greene, Pierre Le Sidaner)

Semantics Working Group (Sebastien Derriere, Norman Gray)

VOEvent Working Group (Rob Seaman, Roy Williams)

We think VOEvent v2.0 is ready for prime time. In the absence of substantive disagreement with this assertion, the PR will move to TCG review on 6 May 2011. -- RobSeaman - 2011-04-24

VOTable Working Group (Francois Ochsenbein)

Data Curation & Preservation Interest Group (Alberto Accomazzi)

Knowledge Discovery in Databases Interest Group (Giuseppe Longo)

Theory Interest Group (Herve Wozniak, Claudio Gheller)

Standards and Processes Committee (Francoise Genova)

Science Priorities (David De Young)

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