Re: updated SSA schema for the registry

From: Doug Tody <dtody-at-nrao.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:49:34 -0700 (MST)


Hi Ray -

> My only comment is with regard to maxFileSize. Bytes was chosen as the units
> for consistency with the SIA resource schema. I think your reasoning is good
> too and am happy to go with this; however, we should keep a mental sticky
> about this when we do SIA v2.0. We might consider revising that schema to use
> kilobytes as well.

This is the plan. The idea has been to use bytes only for actual sizes, and kilobytes for estimates. People were just uncomfortable giving estimated sizes in a precision unit.

The only remaining reservation I had about the schema was maxSearchRadius. These services actually all use POS, which is a diameter not a radius, so this is inconsistent with the service being described. I did not change this in the schema as I suspect there are reasons for using a radius at this level for uniformity across all services, others of which (eg cone) may use radius.

Received on 2008-02-28Z15:50:25