IVOA Identifiers

["Bernard Vatant" <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>]

International Virtual Observatory Alliance
http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/IDs.html

"An IVOA Identifier is a globally unique name for a resource. This is the name that can be
used to retrieve a unique description of the resource from an IVOA-compliant registry.
This document describes the syntax for IVOA identifiers as well as how they are created.
An IVOA identifier has two separable components which can appear in two equivalent
formats: an XML-tagged form and a URI-compliant form. The syntax has been defined to
encourage global-uniqueness naturally and to maximize the freedom of resource providers to
control the character content of an identifier."

Bernard Vatant
Senior Consultant
Knowledge Engineering
Mondeca - www.mondeca.com
bernard.vatant@mondeca.com