[Esip-discovery] status of the RFC on ESIP Atom-based OpenSearch and Collection Casting Conventions

[Doug Newman]

I would prefer the standards track myself.

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On 6/20/13 4:59 PM, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102) wrote:
> I just had a telecon with the Standards Interest Group editors about our RFC.
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> In a nutshell, the Standards Interest Group editors feel that the Collection Casting part is more in the nature of a Best Practice, and therefore more of a Technical Note.  The OpenSearch part (though also a little loosy-goosy relative to more traditional standards like WCS), could go standards track on its own. Though it could also be thought of as a Best Practice use of OpenSearch.
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> So as I see it, we basically have two choices:
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> (1) Submit the whole RFC to the Technical Note track
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> (2) Scope the RFC down to OpenSearch for the Standards Track, and submit a Technical Note on repurposing part of the OpenSearch-based standard for data casting.  Note that in this latter case, we, by which I mean mostly Ruth :-), could reincorporate the granule-level casting, as well as discuss how to use OpenSearch and Casting together.
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> Preferences?
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