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</div><div><br></div><div>The conceptual model makes great re-use of existing standards, you can watch it call out to the other fish in the pond and it very carefully does not repeat anything making it easier to write as a standard.</div><div><br></div><div>If you swap perspective to that of an implementor you are left with … a gap of understanding.</div><div><br></div><div>The document produced by the ATOM Encoding requires client authors to implement both an encoder (so they can make request) and a parser so that they can understand the information that has been cleverly reused by the standards body.</div><div><br></div><div>This standard is lazy on the part of the standards body, and hostile to client authors.</div><div><br></div><div>As an example: Just because GeoTools has the ability to encode WMS requests, DOES NOT imply there is a ready-at-hand WMS request parser available.</div><div><br></div><div>As such the payload delivered by ATOM to describe a WMS request may as well be on the moon. Perhaps a bit further out of the payload is the content of a PUT request, or needs to call out for more schema information as with GML and WFS content.</div><div><br></div><div>So kudos on the reuse of definitions, missed the target audience when considering implementors (you have asked for too much work).</div><div><div>-- </div><div>Jody Garnett<br></div><div><br></div></div>
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Last time I looked at this one with Jim … I hated it (even though he was keen on how ATOM had been used).</div><div>For me It was not providing enough context for a client to make its own request.</div><div><br></div>
<div><div>I would really like to see a context document take shape, it would be very valuable between systems (which we tend to like on these osgeo lists).</div><div><br></div><div>Tracing through your links I arrive at some word docs, don't suppose you can format shift those to PDF or something more portable.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Jody Garnett<br></div><div><br></div></div>
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am not sure if this group saw this announcement. This is a preliminary comment
period. There will be another comment period later in the process.</div>
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announcement is here:</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><a title="http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1765" href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1765">http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1765</a></div>
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ignore the Comment Due date. The OGC OWS Context Standards Working Group is
happy to receive comments on this candidate standard at any time.</div>
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