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<DIV>Dear OSGeo community -</DIV>
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<DIV>Based on a number of submitted Change Requests, a new Web Feature
Service/Filter Encoding (WFS/FE) Standards Working Group (SWG) is
being convened. The draft charter is now ready for review. The draft
charter may be found here:<BR><BR><A
href="https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=46032&version=1">https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=46032&version=1</A><BR><BR>From
the charter:<BR><BR>The purpose of the OWS WFS/FES SWG is to address the CR's
that have been <BR>posted to the OGC change request page as well as those found
in engineering <BR>reports produced during the OGC Web Services 8 test
bed.<BR><BR>Any comments on the charter should be submitted to (Panagiotis
(Peter) A. <BR>Vretanos <<A
href="mailto:pvretano@cubewerx.com">pvretano@cubewerx.com</A>>)<BR><BR>The
public comment period shall remain open until November 14,
2011.<BR><BR>Regards<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Carl Reed, PhD<BR>CTO and Executive Director Specification Program<BR>Open
Geospatial Consortium<BR><A
href="http://www.opengeospatial.org">www.opengeospatial.org</A></DIV>
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<DIV>The OGC: Making Location Count!</DIV>
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