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

[Carl Reed]

I would change "use" to "have".

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raj Singh" <rsingh at opengeospatial.org>
To: "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
Cc: <standards at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 8:18 PM
Subject: [OSGeo-Standards] Re: Can I say "All OGC web service standards 
useOpen Source as a reference implementation"?


> 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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> Raj
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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".
>>
>> or do I need to water that down to "most standards use Open Source as a 
>> reference implementation"?
>>
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