[Esip-discovery] Request to change our Open Search Best Practices

[Doug Newman]

The OGC have asked us to change the following in our ESIP Best Practices 
for Open Search

User startIndex instead of startPage as a means of result set navigation.

Pros

  * startIndex is part of the base Open Search specification, startPage
    is not
  * Introducing startPage to the base Open Search specification
    introduces the possibility of error cases when clients mix the two

Cons

  * startIndex is less intuitive (imho) than startPage for page navigation
  * we have a number of implementations and best practices reliant on
    startPage (I don't want to add a custom non-spec parameter as that
    will decrease interoperability with OGC-compliant implemtations)

Please respond with your thoughts on this change by COB 01/20/15

Cheers,

-- 
Doug Newman - ECHO Operations Lead
douglas.j.newman at nasa.gov
doug.newman at raytheon.com
Raytheon Mission Support Solutions Intelligence, Information and Services | NASA | ECS Evolution Development Program
http://earthdata.nasa.gov/echo

Note: I am not a government employee and have no legal authority to obligate any federal, state, or local government to perform any action of payment.

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