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No. Although widely adopted by members of the IVOA, PLASTIC is not endorsed by the IVOA. However, the Applications Messaging Group of the IVOA is currently developing an applications messaging protocol, codenamed SAMP, that has a similar scope and design to PLASTIC. New applications should use SAMP, not PLASTIC.
