[Spanish] Fwd: [Board] Would you be concerned if the "GeoServices REST API" became an OGC standard?

[Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses]

Hola Lista,

os adjunto un correo de Cameron Shorter sobre un tema que se está
debatiendo en estos momentos en la lista Discuss[1] y que es de
importancia para el mundo FOSS4G.

El resumen (ojo os recomiendo encarecidamente que os leáis el hilo) es
que OGC está votando en estos momentos (el proceso durará unas
semanas) una propuesta de ESRI para que se reconozca su API de
geoservicios REST como un estandar OGC. Esta API en realidad solapa
muchos de los estándares que ya están incluidos en OGC (WMS, WFS,
etc).

Esto tendría un impacto directo sobre el FOSS4G porque para seguir
cumpliendo con OGC deberían implementar también la API de ESRI que de
momento no es abierta (tampoco es exactamente cerrada) y que como ya
se ha comentado sería duplicar unas funcionalidades que están
recogidas.

Cameron ha pedido que la comunidad participe en el hilo de debate de
la lista Discuss[2] para tener un corpus de opinión con el que poder
argumentar a OGC.

Un saludo,

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011599.html
[2] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter en gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:46 PM
Subject: [Board] Would you be concerned if the "GeoServices REST API"
became an OGC standard?
To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss en lists.osgeo.org>
Cc: standards en lists.osgeo.org, OSGeo-Board <board en lists.osgeo.org>


OSGeo Community,

Currently, voting OGC members are to decide whether to accept the
"GeoServices REST API" as an OGC standard. This is already a
contentious issue, with 13 votes for, and 10 votes against, 72
outstanding votes, with voting halted temporally, being reopened again
in a few days, and closing 2 weeks after that. [1]

I'm wanting to hear whether people in the OSGeo community have strong
opinions regarding this proposed standard, and whether we as a
collective OSGeo community should make statements to the OGC, and
voting OGC members, stressing our thoughts.

If there is sufficient interest, I'll raise this issue with the OSGeo
Board, with the intent of drafting a statement on behalf of OSGeo.

As background:
* "The API was initially developed by Esri and implemented on the
ArcGIS for Server platform." [2]

* The proposed GeoServices REST API specification overlaps with most
OGC standards already deployed, including: WMS, WMTS, WCS, WFS,
SE/SLD, CS/W. This effectively means that for most use cases covered
by the GeoServices REST API, applications would now have two standards
to support. Also, spatial infrastructure programs will be impacted, as
OGC compliance won't necessarily equate to interoperability.

* Most (all?) current OGC web service standards to date have an Open
Source reference implementation, which was often (always?) part funded
by OGC testbeds, and open source implementations were tested against
proprietary implementations during OGC testbeds. As far as I'm aware,
there has been very little up-take from the Open Source community of
the "GeoServices REST API", and I'm unaware of any testing of non-ESRI
applications during OGC testbeds. (Someone may be able to correct me
here).

[1] https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&a=view&project_id=82&tab=5&subtab=0
(OGC member login required. Votes counted as at 4 May 2013)

[2] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89

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