ADQL-0.9; another review & comment, please

[Tony Linde]

> I think several VO projects -- NVO, AstroGrid, JVO , and 
> others -- are preparing this toward the Jan demo. I am 
> looking forward to seeing the results.

I don't know about NVO but the AstroGrid and AstroGrid/AVO demos will only
demonstrate 0.7.4.

> At this moment we need to follow the instruction described in 
> the Standardization Process Recommendation. Thus I would like 
> you to discuss on the CONTENT of the working draft.

My point is that we cannot discuss the content of the draft except in a very
theoretical sense until we have tried to use it and that process won't be
complete until early/mid 2005. So my suggestion is that we postpone
promotion of the WD to PR until later next year.

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-voql at eso.org [mailto:owner-voql at eso.org] On 
> Behalf Of Masatoshi OHISHI
> Sent: 07 December 2004 07:07
> To: voql at ivoa.net
> Subject: RE: ADQL-0.9; another review & comment, please
> 
> All,
> 
> At 10:41 04/12/06 +0000, Tony Linde wrote:
>  >I think there are some very significant changes in the 
> newer versions of  >ADQL that merit substantive testing 
> (especially Units) before we can propose  >that the ADQL WD 
> should be promoted. Before we tell people to start using a  
> >new version of ADQL, we should have a couple of working 
> prototypes in the  >projects with published data resources.
> 
> I think several VO projects -- NVO, AstroGrid, JVO , and 
> others -- are preparing this toward the Jan demo. I am 
> looking forward to seeing the results.
> 
>  >And before we move towards a v1.0 of ADQL I think we ought 
> to be able to  >demonstrate two or three projects calling 
> *cross-project* data querying  >services.
> 
> You raised a very lbig issue that is relavant to many 
> standards, and I think this is an issue for the 
> Standardization Process group and Exective committee.
> We need to recall the roadmap of the IVOA; in 2005 we plan to 
> start scientific
> (astronomical) use of our VO environment and in 2006 we 
> encourage the astronomical community to produce plenty of 
> wonderful results on the VO environment.
> 
> At this moment we need to follow the instruction described in 
> the Standardization Process Recommendation. Thus I would like 
> you to discuss on the CONTENT of the working draft.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>      Masatoshi
> 
>