LSST has several interests in IVOA interfaces and their implementations. First off, it is imperative that we support standardized interfaces for data access so that our users can reuse community-standard tools, such as TOPCAT. Secondly, HTTP interfaces are an extremely flexible way of providing and managing data access both inside a datacenter and across the internet, and the IVOA has several standards we could potentially leverage where they make sense. Finally, it's in our best interest to reuse data access interface implementations and code where we can in order to reduce our workload and hopefully improve the existing body of work where we can.
When evaluating the IVOA standards, the data access team has two specific use cases to accomodate. The first is to accomodate the SUIT team with relevant interfaces to access catalog data and images. The second use case is to support standard tools such as TOPCAT