Talk:Discovery Change Proposal-2

Combined with incubator DCP from Matt Cechini -- Clynnes 10:22, 17 June 2011 (MDT)

We grafted the description from Matt Cechini's incubator DCP on OPeNDAP link_type with this DCP.

However, the namespace remains in opendap.org. This is chosen as a namespace because it is more authoritative than ESIP, i.e., the keepers of the DAP standard.

From telecon discussion of handling alternate service/data links in granule-level Discovery responses -- Hook 15:12, 9 August 2011 (MDT)

• See Discovery Telecon 2011-08-09 for meeting minutes on discussion.
• To continue discussion here and vote on the preferred approach.
• Possible ideas so far:

1. Original DCP-2 idea: rel attribute value of http://xml.opendap.org/ns/DAP/3.3#.
2. "rel" could be dereferencible URI. but is fragile.
3. Could leverage the fragment part of the URI
   1. e.g. http://esipfed.org/ns/discovery/1.1/data#DAP/3.3/
4. Use space-delimitation in "rel" URI
5. Define third attribute, with appropriate namespace.
   1. As long as using namespaced attribute, it does not break in the W3C Feed Validation Service.