[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC certification fees - Is there a common agreement with OSGeo

[Gobe Hobona]

Régis,

The OSGeo-OGC Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is still in place [https://www.osgeo.org/wp-content/uploads/MOU_OSGeo_20081201.pdf <https://www.osgeo.org/wp-content/uploads/MOU_OSGeo_20081201.pdf>]

However, neither the MOU nor the Compliance Testing Policy [https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=55234 <https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=55234>] allows us to exceed the limit on Reference Implementations. The policy has not changed since 2013.

The fee is only waived for:

* The first three implementations to pass 100% of the compliance procedure, while the test is in beta. We refer to these as Early Implementers.
* The first two Reference Implementations that pass the test related to a conformance class within a version of an Implementation Standard.

In this case, the executable test suite of OGC API - Features - Part 1: Core is already in production (i.e. it is no longer in beta).  Please also note that there are already two current Reference Implementations of the standard. 

Both the Reference Implementation and Early Implementer routes continue to be available to OSGeo projects. However, there are terms and conditions as documented in the MOU and Policy documents.

QGIS Server can still be registered on the Compliance database as implementing OGC API - Features - Part 1: Core, just not certified as OGC Compliant for that standard. If an organisation that is using or contributing to QGIS Server needs it to be certified, please do let us know and we can look at getting the certification funded through that organisation.

Regards,

Gobe
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Gobe Hobona, PhD MRICS
Director of Product Management, Standards | Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Tel: +44 744 409 6781
ghobona at ogc.org | ogc.org | @opengeospatial

> On 23 Oct 2020, at 17:08, Régis Haubourg <president at osgeo.asso.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> During the last two years, I have been in running the official
> certification process for QGIS.org and QGIS server.
> 
> We have certified [0] QGIS server for WMS 1.3 and more recently the OGC
> APIF 1.0.
> 
> Up to now, the OGC team has been very helpful by kindly giving us the
> reference implementation status, which implies no fees to pay.
> 
> But this changed just now with a more strict policy - see the response
> below [4] - which ends up in having to pay 300 euros for each
> certification process and yearly renewal process.
> 
> QGIS.org could eventually afford this budget, but I'm not sure smaller
> OSGeo project can.
> 
> Furthermore, this manual process is already time consuming, a bit
> bureaucratic,  and given that we run continuous integration with OGC
> compliance tests [1], we will probably not struggle to get certified so
> often under these new conditions. That is a bit sad since open source
> really go together with public standards.
> 
> Do we have any agreement at the OSGeo level that would ease this part ? 
> (I checked the wiki [2] first of course)
> 
> 
> Thanks for your inputs,
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Régis
> 
> ---
> 
> President of the french local Chapter / QGIS contributor
> 
> 
> [0]
> https://www.ogc.org/resource/products?display_opt=1&org_match=QGIS.org%20(OSGEO%20project) <https://www.ogc.org/resource/products?display_opt=1&org_match=QGIS.org%20(OSGEO%20project)>
> 
> [1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38644 <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38644>
> 
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_Certification_Services <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_Certification_Services>
> 
> 
> [4]
> 
> On 22/10/2020 11:25, Gobe Hobona wrote:
>> We appreciate the work done by the QGIS and OSGeo community in
>> supporting OGC standards. Please note however that we are guided by
>> our policies, agreed on by the OGC Membership.
>> 
>> Please see Sections 5.5 and 6.3 of the Compliance Testing Policy
>> [https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=55234 <https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=55234>].
>> 
>> The fee is only waived for:
>> 
>> * The first three implementations to pass 100% of the compliance
>> procedure, while the test is in beta. We refer to these as Early
>> Implementers.
>> * The first two Reference Implementations that pass the test related
>> to a conformance class within a version of an Implementation Standard.
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Régis Haubourg
> ----------------------------------------
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> 
> Président de l'OSGeo-FR 
> 
> OSGeo-fr, acteur francophone de la géomatique open-source
> 
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> 
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