Re: [Plastic-devs] IVOA Note on PLASTIC

[Isa B. <Isa...@sc...>]

Dear John et al.
thanks for the excellent work made with this first Note of the Plastic 
implementation.
I just have a couple of suggestions/comments that I hope can be of some 
utility.

1) I would find useful to have listed in the section 2.1.1 all the 
existing defined messages, because I think they represent the final 
purpose of the applications developing Plastic and in my opinion they 
should be listed in the Protocol Specification.
They could be update with each new version of the document and they 
could give a general view of the progress made by the Plastic 
implementation.

2) Showing Screenshots and graphic examples can be very useful to 
illustrate what are the practical capabilities of the Plastic Messages 
and I think this is actually supporting the idea to have all the 
messages listed and described as above (point 1) as they can highlight 
the utility of Plastic from the purpose side.
I've also noticed that spectra are mentioned only in few examples. I'm 
about to release a new version of VOSpec implementing the "Interop Menu" 
and I hope for the next release of the Plastic Specification VOSpec 
could be displayed as example or reference for the spectra messages.

I hope this can be useful.
Cheers,
Isa


John Taylor wrote:
> Dear All (again).  Apologies for the broken link, the correct link is below:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ymb3jg
>
> John
>
> John Taylor wrote:
>   
>> Dear All,
>> Please find below a link to the draft PLASTIC IVOA note that Thomas, 
>> Marco, Mark, Noel and I have prepared.
>>
>>
>>
>> Although this is only a Note and so doesn't need to go through any 
>> formal review process, we thought it fair to give you the chance to 
>> comment on it before publication, if you wish.
>> I intend to publish the Note in a week's time, provided too many 
>> changes aren't required.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
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>   

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