[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [OSGeo-Standards] TMS and WMTS

[Raj Singh]

That's a really interesting question. Any ideas how you would go about  
tackling it?
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Raj


On Apr 8, at 11:09 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:

> There are many different types of ways to produce new protocols (and  
> I deliberately do not use the work standard here) in the world.   
> Some are best developed from the ground up, in advance of any  
> existing practice.  Some are canonicalizations of existing  
> practice.  Some are evolved slowly and deliberately with a number of  
> participants and high ceremony.  Some are developed rapidly and  
> informally with one or few participants and little or no ceremony.   
> Our industry has been well served at times by all of these types of  
> methodologies and we will continue to do so.
>
> A key issue that we can profitably discuss here is: what factors  
> should go into deciding how a new protocol should be developed?   
> When is the high ceremony approach better than the low ceremony  
> approach, and vice versa?  I think that discussion would do much to  
> underlie the question of how OGC and OSGeo can work better together.