Dear All,
The Apps WG appears to be in good shape in the lead up to the Beijing interop meeting next week. We have a full schedule of presentations of new and updated VO applications, many of which will highlight implementation of IVOA standards and VO concepts.
The applications messaging standard 'project' is also in good shape with the mailing list discussion converging on the approach described by Mike and John, to improve the basic PLASTIC protocol into an IVOA standard - with working name of SAMP. The discussion did of course cover the issues of more general messaging problems, and these are well noted. A longer term roadmap will try to address how this all fits together, and also identify the level of overlap with GWS territory.
A summary of the discussion and current approach will be given at the beginning of the Apps Messaging session. Given the consensus for SAMP we plan to avoid a re-run of the mailing list debates! The schedule is focused on the practical decisions to be made for SAMP, based on the issues listed in the table:
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/PlasticOnePointOh
The schedule will be on the Twiki as soon as it starts working again.
I think we should have the goal to formulate a plan for writing the standards documents, and implementations within a relatively short (2-3 month) timeline after the meeting.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the mailing list discussion, and I look forward to seeing many of you in Beijing.
-Mark. Received on 2007-05-10Z23:51:56