Discovery Change Proposals

<< Back to the Discovery Cluster Governance page

DCP-1

Title: ESIP Discovery Cast Atom Response Format v1.1
Submitted: 2011-02-08T13:00 PST
Review period deadline: 2011-02-28T00:00 PST
Current governance step: submitted
Background: At the NASA Earth Science Data System Working Group meeting in New Orleans on October 21, 2010, a proposal was made to expand the scope of Federated Open Search to cover Discovery more generally, thus bringing into the fold datacasting and servicecasting. Therefore a common Atom response format is needed that extends the Atom Syndication Format (RFC 4287) with extensions specific for Earth science data usage.
Problem addressed: Currently OpenSearch, datacasting and servicecasting all return very similar granule-level information. But there is no consistent format used. This proposal will provide a specification for a set of Earth science-specific extensions to the Atom response format.
Proposed solution: See Discovery_Cast_Atom_Response_Format. Note that this link will be changed to include a version.
Rationale for the solution: Reuse as much of existing standards as possible. Fold in Geo and Time extensions. Define a set of commonly used rel link types for OpenSearch, datacasting and servicecasting.

Template for new DCPs

All changes to the Discovery specifications must go through the governance process starting with a Discovery Change Proposal (DCP). Each DCP must include the following context for reference:

A unique identifier. For example, DCP-i, where i is a unique id. It is common to see an incrementing number used in these types of community based processes.
Title: Title of proposal.
Facilitator: The primary editor to help the DCP move along the process.
Submitted: Timestamp of when proposal was submitted.
Review period deadline:
Current governance step: choose from: submitted, proposal review, vote, revising, final review, & ratified.
Background:
Problem addressed:
Proposed solution:
Rationale for the solution: