[OSGeo-Standards] OSGeo access to OWS Context specs

[Cameron Shorter]

Forwarding Carl's email, as I'm aware he is not subscribed to all lists 
he replied to.

Carl Reed OGC Account wrote:
> I will be out of the office for two weeks. However, as the proposal is 
> a good one, I would suggest working with Raj, Greg, and Mark Reichardt 
> to make this happen.
>
> Also, FYI, as soon as we get out from under all the changes to 
> documents and the web site for the new OGC IPR policy, we will be 
> standing up a public OGC Change Request Proposal system whereby anyone 
> can submit change requests and track their progress.
>
> Regards
>
> Carl
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Shorter" 
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> To: <standards at lists.osgeo.org>; "Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]" 
> <Tom.Kralidis at ec.gc.ca>
> Cc: <mapbuilder-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>; "openlayers" 
> <dev at openlayers.org>; <context.rwg at opengeospatial.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 2:03 PM
> Subject: [OSGeo-Standards] OSGeo access to OWS Context specs
>
>
>> OSGeo Standards,
>>
>> Mapbuilder stores state information inside an OWS Context document, 
>> and consequently we may be the largests tester of OWS Context.
>>
>> Every few months we have debates over various parts of the OWS 
>> Context spec as developers implement new things. The latest is a 
>> discussion shared with Openlayers over how Layer groups should be 
>> handled.
>>
>> The current OWS Context spec/schema is globally available at:
>> * http://www.ogcnetwork.net/schemas/owc/0.2.0/
>>
>> A wiki list of identified issues is at:
>> * 
>> https://portal.opengeospatial.org/wiki/twiki/bin/view/CGDIPilot/CgdiipOwsContext 
>>
>> Unfortunately, this is only available to OGC members. My next email 
>> will be to lobby to make it visible.
>>
>>
>> As part of OGC's mass market strategy, can we please open up access 
>> to the OWS Context issue list. This should ensure that specs would 
>> benefit from greater testing and increase adoption.
>>
>> An alternative I've considered is setting up an issue tracker as part 
>> of Mapbuilder to address OWS Context. (I'd prefer an issue tracker 
>> over a wiki as it is easier to manage issues through to completion).
>>
>> -- 
>> Cameron Shorter
>> Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au
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-- 
Cameron Shorter
Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254