[OSGeo-Board] OSGeo status regarding implementation of standards

[Chris Holmes]

Frank asked me to shop around an 'official position' for OSGeo to 
release about our relation to standards, the original was:

 >> 'official position' - 'OSGeo serves as a testbed and safe space for
 >> standards prototype development', perhaps followed by something like
 >> 'in the hope that these community driven standards may grow in to full
 >> fledged OGC or W3C specifications'...

Paul, MPG, anyone else have thoughts on this?  I can do the work of 
raising on the discuss list and making a board motion and all, though 
I'm out all next week so it'll have to wait till I get back.

I for one am definitely happy to see this work go on in OSGeo, the exact 
type of things that were happening at EOGEO, but with potentially a bit 
wider audience.  But I want to be sure everyone knows we're not looking 
to step on toes, we're just looking to 'get things done'.

Also I think it's good that you changed 'standard' to 'document' in the 
spec Paul.

Chris

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Well, since Arnulf is a principle member of the OGC, I can only assume 
> they mean "are you planning on trying to marginalize us"?  Which we're 
> not, of course.  Or we are, in the same way we're trying to marginalize 
> ESRI.  Basically we are trying to "get things done", using an open 
> source methodology and creating open source products.  Those 
> methodologies can be applied to all kinds of work products: software, 
> specifications, documentation.  And that we apply them to current topics 
> of interest should surprise noone.
> 
> P
> 
> On 3-Nov-06, at 8:57 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> 
>> I'm kinda curious what exactly OGC means by asking this question --
>> "whether OSGeo wants to become an active standardization body."  Who
>> from OGC is asking, and why do they even care?  Was it just that they
>> were interested because the original TMS spec was related to their WMS
>> spec, or..?
>>
>> (fyi, I've heard a few off-list wonderings in the past couple days about
>> our standards position & so forth, largely as a result of AdenaS's blog.
>> I'm glad we're taking the time to clarify our position.)
>>
>> -mpg
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Arnulf Christl [mailto:arnulf.christl at ccgis.de]
>>> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 8:00 AM
>>> To: OSGeo-Board
>>> Cc: Paul Ramsey; tmitchell at osgeo.org
>>> Subject: [OSGeo-Board] OSGeo status regarding implementation
>>> of standards
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have been asked by the OGC whether OSGeo wants to become an
>>> active standardization body. I said that OSGeo has set a high
>>> affinity for standards in its charter but that it is
>>> currently not actively developing them. Reading the page
>>> "Tile Map Service Specification" speaks a different language though:
>>>
>>> From: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Tile_Map_Service_Specification
>>> This specification is currently in active revision, edits are
>>> accepted from any user at any time. Please join the mailing
>>> list http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tiling to
>>> discuss your ideas before applying them to the draft. The
>>> specification will first move from active revision to final
>>> review and then finally to numbered specification, at which
>>> point it will be locked.
>>>
>>> Personally I am all in favor of a fast, easy, and truly open
>>> process that considers technical aspects and goes about it
>>> pragmatically. But we do not have an official statement
>>> regarding this. As long as we have not considered this we
>>> should be careful proclaiming the above 'standard' in the way
>>> we do because of all kings of legal implications.
>>>
>>> Any opinions?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Arnulf.
>>>
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Chris Holmes
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