[postgis-users] Re: Conformance testing

[Paul Ramsey]

Did the TLA fees change in the last couple years or am I just a really 
bad reader. When I last looked at this I could swear the lower cutoff 
fee was in the four figures. For $80 I'll fork out for an OGC badge :)

P.

Martin Daly wrote:

> OGC is also not a charity.  The TLA fees go towards supporting the
> compliance tests, which can be a considerable amount of work to develop
> and maintain.  For an OGC Associate Member (like Refractions), with
> gross annual revenue of up to US $50 million (wild guess: this covers
> Refractions), the TLA fee for a single product is less than US $1000.
> The fees are staged so that, for revenues of less than US $1 million,
> the fee is US $80.  These hardly seem prohibitively expensive.  You can
> check all of the fees here:
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/resources/?page=testing&view=testfees