US (NVO/VAO) opinions on HTTP GET in VOSpace 2.0

[Roy Williams]

> If standard HTTP GET works for your data, then please use a webserver.
> VOSpace is intended to handle the cases where HTTP GET isn't suitable.
Dave

You may lose customers this way. Suppose somebody has already built an 
application that distributes data through web URLs, and they are 
thinking of upgrading to VOSpace, for example most existing data centers 
and their user tools. If you cannot replicate what they do already (i.e. 
a URL/GET access mechanism), then the step they must make is much 
larger, and perhaps not taken. The potential customer will move towards 
HTTP sharing and HTTP upload. The risk is that VOSpace will become a 
boutique protocol used only by a handful of sites.

Roy

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