<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I also stripped some language that I stole from the WMS spec, back when I thought I was going to pattern on that document, and changed "standard" to "document" in a number of cases.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>P<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 3-Nov-06, at 8:20 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Done.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">This document is the work of a loose community of participants interested in client/server mapping solutions that use multi-resolution image pyramids. It is meant to be used as a baseline for the implementation of client/server mapping software. It is not an "official standard" nor is it endorsed by OSGEO as an official project or work product of the Foundation."</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><DIV><DIV>On 3-Nov-06, at 8:15 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arnulf Christl wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have been asked by the OGC whether OSGeo wants to become an active standardization body. I said that OSGeo has set a high affinity for standards in its charter but that it is currently not actively developing them. Reading the page "Tile Map Service Specification" speaks a different language though:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: <A href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Tile_Map_Service_Specification">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Tile_Map_Service_Specification</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This specification is currently in active revision, edits are accepted from any user at any time. Please join the mailing list <A href="http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tiling">http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tiling</A> to discuss your ideas before applying them to the draft. The specification will first move from active revision to final review and then finally to numbered specification, at which point it will be locked.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Personally I am all in favor of a fast, easy, and truly open process that considers technical aspects and goes about it pragmatically. But we do not have an official statement regarding this. As long as we have not considered this we should be careful proclaiming the above 'standard' in the way we do because of all kings of legal implications.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arnulf,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I don't think there is a problem with it being called a standard, or living</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">in the OSGeo wiki.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I would appreciate some sort of preamble or something</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">indicating it is a defacto standard being developed by a community of</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">interest, and not officially associated with OSGeo.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best regards,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I set the clouds in motion - turn up <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>| Frank Warmerdam, <A href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">light and sound - activate the windows | <A href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and watch the world go round - Rush<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>| President OSGeo, <A href="http://osgeo.org">http://osgeo.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>