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size=2><SPAN class=900562922-06012007>If I can infer from Jo's hipster position
that no committment would be made to OGC, then by all means, yes: let us
carry on and see what happens.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Gary Lang
[mailto:gary.lang@autodesk.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 06, 2007
11:15 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Jo Walsh; Michael P. Gerlek<BR><B>Cc:</B>
board@lists.osgeo.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Board] OGC
Relationship<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>"Well, really i am just being a hippie here in "don't think
about<BR>it, just get on with doing things, try to make those things
beautiful<BR>and useful" mode. YMMV quite a lot, i suspect ;) "<BR><BR>It
might, but I think this is the right approach as
well.<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From:
board-bounces@lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Jo Walsh<BR>Sent: Sat
1/6/2007 4:13 AM<BR>To: Michael P.
Gerlek<BR>Cc:
board@lists.osgeo.org<BR>Subject:
Re: [Board] OGC Relationship<BR><BR>On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 03:59:04AM -0800,
Michael P. Gerlek wrote:<BR>> [I pause to note that Raj's heart is in the
right place here, and<BR>> the MassMarketWG might become the exception to
normal OGC processes.<BR>> But we don't know how that works yet.
Hence current discussion.]<BR><BR>Right, here you have touched the point with
a needle. Both OSGeo and<BR>OGC are in the process of working out a more open
model of involvement.<BR>Raj personally is a superstar, and 'Mass Market' is
where the<BR>OSGeo-community specification efforts have wound up, so focus
here?<BR><BR>> OGC regularly passes specs upwards to ISO for what seems
like<BR>> thumbs-up/down, almost pro-forma approval. I'm not sure how
that<BR>> process actually works, but might that be a model worth
discussing?<BR><BR>Nod, i refer you all again again to Jody's blog entry about
this:<BR><A
href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jive/archive/2006/11/wms_tiling_or_w.html">http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jive/archive/2006/11/wms_tiling_or_w.html</A><BR><BR>[[
The tiling "specification" is currently a bunch of hackers bashing<BR>away at
the problem. Standardization comes later, the document will be<BR>submitted to
the OGC where I imagine it will be treated as an<BR>extension to WMS (much
like the SLD specification). ]]<BR><BR>There *are* other avenues to 'open
standardisation', specifically<BR><A
href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/">http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/</A><BR><BR>On
the one hand this is a social negotiation between OSGeo/OGC.<BR>On the other
this is a technical negotiation about best practise.<BR>I know it's hard to
unpick the two, but perhaps is useful if we do.<BR><BR>Well, really i am just
being a hippie here in "don't think about<BR>it, just get on with doing
things, try to make those things beautiful<BR>and useful" mode. YMMV quite a
lot, i suspect
;)<BR><BR>cheers,<BR><BR><BR>jo<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Board
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