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

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

I’m ambivalent on the pros v. cons (I agree with all of them), so I would vote in favor of the change, just to be more compatible with OGC.

On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:31 AM, Doug Newman via Esip-discovery <esip-discovery at lists.esipfed.org<mailto:esip-discovery at lists.esipfed.org>> wrote:

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,

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Doug Newman - ECHO Operations Lead
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