On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Juan Marín Otero <
[email protected]> wrote:
> That said, as long as we implement OGC protocols better to it right and
>> try to play ball so that we can work with both the old and new schemas
>> seamlessly.
>>
>> At the same time really believe it's time to look into implementing
>> restful alternatives to the OGC protocols so that we keep up to date
>> with what the client developers expects (if what I've seen at FOSS4G-NA
>> is any indication, the expectation is "anything but not OGC").
>>
>>
>
> The developer crowd at FOSS4GNA is not necessarily representative of the
> user base for GeoServer / GeoTools. Many projects coming from Government
> still mandate OGC services.
>
>
I know, but it's kind of new to me to participate to a 3 days conference
and not remembering a single mention of OGC protocols
during conversations and presentations I've looked at. I was used to hear
people complaining mostly, not hearing it mentioned at
all was a surprise.
That said, I'm not saying we should abandon OGC, not at all, we definitely
want to keep implementing new specs as they come by
and improve our support to existing standards (thinking about optional
portions of the protocol we still don't implement).
INSPIRE in Europe guarantees there will be a OGC user base for those
protocols for quite some time, and so does the application
schema community.
I'm just saying that we should _also_ start looking more actively into
RESTful equivalents of the OGC protocols to have a complete
(and up to date) set of options for data access. If we don't we risk that
our user base shrinks as people migrate to other implementations
offering what is perceived as a easier to use set of protocols.
Cheers
Andrea
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