[OSGeo-Standards] Re: Can I say "All OGC web service standards use Open Source as a reference implementation"?

[Raj Singh]

That's complicated. OGC decided that we would require our reference implementations (RIs) to be open source. However, all our standards don't have RIs.

The list of standards with "official" reference implementations is at http://cite.opengeospatial.org/reference. (we don't have 52 North on there yet as the Sensor Observation Service RI). 

All the "major" standards have RIs, so you might say something like "OGC's most mature standards use open source reference implementations..."

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On Aug 23, at 7:15 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> I'm putting together a presentation, and want to know whether I can make the claim that "all OGC web service standards use Open Source as a reference implementation".
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> or do I need to water that down to "most standards use Open Source as a reference implementation"?
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