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<DIV>Andrea -</DIV>
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<DIV>Good point.</DIV>
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<DIV>Actually, over the last several years there has been a major shift in OGC
standards development such that multiple reference implementations are completed
prior to or shortly after the standard is approved by the OGC Membership. For
example, WaterML, GeoSPARQL, Open GeoSMS, the latest version of GMLCOV,
CF-NetCDF (and all extensions), the recently submitted Geopackage, the soon to
be submitted GeoSciML, and the new proposed WMS profile for Meteorology all have
multiple implementations. These implementations are the result of 1.) a
completed interoperability experiment, 2.) an OGC OWS testbed activity, or 3.)
the candidate standard was developed outside the OGC and was subsequently
submitted into the OGC process. </DIV>
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<DIV>We are fortunate because ensuring that a new standard meets community
requirements is, as you point out, critical. While the OGC has always required a
commitment to implement, having candidate standard implemented prior to adoption
saves considerable pain and suffering (and lost time) downstream.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for the input.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
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<DIV>Carl</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=andrea.aime@geo-solutions.it
href="mailto:andrea.aime@geo-solutions.it">Andrea Aime</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 22, 2012 1:40 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=lhomme.xavier@gmail.com
href="mailto:lhomme.xavier@gmail.com">xavier lhomme</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=afdoyle@mit.edu href="mailto:afdoyle@mit.edu">Allan
Doyle</A> ; <A title=standards@lists.osgeo.org
href="mailto:standards@lists.osgeo.org">Standards (OSGeo)</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OSGeo-Standards] [RESTful-Policy.SWG] [OAB] Encodings
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:35 PM, xavier lhomme <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:lhomme.xavier@gmail.com"
target=_blank>lhomme.xavier@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<P>Sure reviewing Geoservices specification takes time but you could also
experimenting it ! </P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>Not sure I got what you mean? Maybe build prototypes of the
specification to see <BR>how difficult it actually is to create and use
it?<BR><BR>That's something I'd really like to see, have some rough software
development done in parallel<BR>to the spec development so that the spec leaders
can get some feedback from the trenches<BR>about what actually works, and what
does not.<BR>It's something that I've heard quite a bit in OSGeo circles, in
particular that having to develop<BR>a reference implementation after the spec
is basically cast in stone does very little<BR>in terms of improving the spec
itself.<BR><BR>Cheers<BR>Andrea <BR clear=all></DIV></DIV><BR>-- <BR>
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