7th IPDA Steering Committee Completed.

The IPDA held a very successful meeting at the ISRO facilities in Bangalore, India from July 11, 2012 - July 13, 2012.

The IPDA Steering Committee met on July 11, 2012 - July 13, 2012 at the ISRO facilities in Bangalore, India.  Significant progress has been made in internationalizing standards based on PDS4, developing methods for searching and linking to multiple archives, and adopting common approaches for working with data providers.  Several new projects have been selected for the 2013 year including:

* Implementation of PDS4 for new missions

* Registration of data, services and tools from members agency across the IPDA

* Updates to the PDAP protocol to support integration with PDS4

* Additional support in PDS4 for Geometry Data