Re: Software discussion

From: John A. Dormer 2 via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 12:33:23 -0500
Thank you for this offer, Chris. It will be highly useful in time. 
You're in a position to have early experience with the changes we 
suspect are happening.

Opening up a database server to the wild Internet isn't desirable, and 
the security concerns boggle me. This is another item which should be 
investigated: "Orbital Elements as a Service." It would be a "web 
service" in the technical sense, using specific JSON or XML to pass the 
traffic and support queries. This is a longer-range goal, however, and 
would be limited to the items currently in the Amateur catalog.

Tools for McCants would also need to be created so he (or any other 
analyst) would be able to upload their reductions. Version and pedigree 
control of these items would be critical. The barriers to this are low, 
but it does come back to the "single point of failure" issue. This can 
be solved for the cost of a nice cup of coffee per month.

I do like Egemen İmre's specific recognition of the three categories of 
SeeSat-L followers (Observers, Orbital Analysts, and Developers). I'd 
tentatively add on "Administrators," as a catch-all for people like Ted 
Molczan and those who will ultimately handle the machinery which 
supports this next set of steps. It's nice to see someone else 
vocalizing the things I've also considered. This is why we talk to each 
other.

     John

On 5/5/2019 10:30, Chris Kuethe via Seesat-l wrote:
> On Sun, May 5, 2019, 10:13 Egemen İmre via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> ...
>> - Mccants TLE files and their history should be reachable as a database
>> that can be queried. Failing that, I would be happy to have them available
>> as zip files in Classfd_DD_MM_YYYY_VER.zip file name format.
>>
> I lurk a lot here too, but I definitely have the last couple of years TLEs
> in a database, as both strings and individual numeric elements which can be
> queried/sorted.
>
> I'm using mongodb but there's nothing about the schema that would prelude
> postgres or mariadb as a storage engine. I'm happy to open up my database.
>
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