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

[Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)]

On Jun 20, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Ruth Duerr <rduerr at nsidc.org> wrote:

> I, of course, would rather keep the two together since by definition a collection cast is just the result of a parameterless OpenSearch query, so quite frankly their opinion and attitude don't make any sense to me and, since actually creating a feed like that is the easiest way to get your holdings to show up verbatim in Google searches, I really don't get it.  But whatever… and no I wouldn't submit a separate Tech Note.
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> Ruth
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OK, let me amend the choices then:

(1) Submit the whole RFC to the Technical Note track

(2) Scope the RFC down to OpenSearch for the Standards Track

Personally, I think the main value in the exercise was just pulling the information into a single, relatively usable document, so whether it goes in as a standard or a technote is not that important. In fact, I note that of past RFCs:
o  OGC WMS 1.1.1 was a standard, but OGC WMS 1.3 was a Technote
o  The "ECHO Metadata Standard" was in fact a Technote
o  GCMD DIF was a standard, but Updates to GCMD DIF was a tech note

> On Jun 20, 2013, at 2:59 PM, "Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)" <christopher.s.lynnes at nasa.gov> wrote:
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>> 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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>> Dr. Christopher Lynnes     NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2    phone: 301-614-5185
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Dr. Christopher Lynnes     NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2    phone: 301-614-5185
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