VOTable 1.1 : extended RFC

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>From : IVOA Chair (Andy Lawrence) July 5th 2004
Re : Proposed Recommendation : VOTable Format specification v1.1

       Extended RFC

Dear IVOA-ers

The VOTable working group has a Proposed Recommendation for version 1.1 of the VOTable standard, V1.1. An RFC was issued by the chair of the VOTable WG (Francois Ochsenbein) on June 6th. Our standards process allows four weeks for responses to an RFC at this stage. A number of comments were received and appropriate changes made. The four weeks has now elapsed. However I note that Francois announced the RFC to the VOTable WG, not to the whole of interop-at-ivoa.net. I am therefore alerting interop-at-ivoa.net and allowing a slightly extended period for comments to July 19th. Following this I will ask the Exec to vote. (Exec - please be prepared to vote quickly at that time - Francois has been waiting long enough !)

The proposed recommendation can be found at http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/PR/

The RFC is at http://www.ivoa.net/forum/votable/0406/0675.htm

Discussions during the RFC period can be found on the WG wiki pages, at http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOTableRFC

Comments from outside the WG should also use these wiki pages, or the VOTable forum.  

                   andy lawrence

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