Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Will OGC’s standards meet government purchasing guidelines?
Cameron, just to say that for the first time I’m seing good strong arguments that make a clear case, that’s easy to understand and with very low emotional content… Thanks for your tireless work on this. Regards, Duarte De: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com] Enviada: quarta-feira, 22 de Maio de 2013 03:26 Para: standa...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions Assunto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Will OGC’s standards meet government purchasing guidelines? In what has become the OGC’s most contentious vote to date, OGC members are being asked whether the proposed Geoservices REST API should be accepted as an OGC standard. A summary of concerns are listed in an Open Letter from the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) to the OGC. However, the crux of contentions hinge around the definition of an Open Standard and whether the Geoservices REST API qualifies as one. When measured against government’s policy drivers of interoperability, fair competition, and economical use of government funds, the evidence is overwhelming. Geoservices REST API fails on all accounts. In fact, we should be questioning why our OGC processes haven’t identified and then addressed these issues much earlier. The justification is in blog format (as hyperlinks to references don't copy well to some email clients): http://lisasoft.com/blog/will-ogc%E2%80%99s-standards-meet-government-purchasing-guidelines -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Will OGC’s standards meet government purchasing guidelines?
Cameron- from the perspective of an OGC spec writer (WCS, in this case) working hard on good engineering I very much appreciate your differentiated viewpoint, refining the catch-all headline appropriately. regards, Peter On 05/23/2013 10:53 AM, Duarte Carreira wrote: Cameron, just to say that for the first time I’m seing good strong arguments that make a clear case, that’s easy to understand and with very low emotional content… Thanks for your tireless work on this. Regards, Duarte *De:*Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com] *Enviada:* quarta-feira, 22 de Maio de 2013 03:26 *Para:* standa...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions *Assunto:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Will OGC’s standards meet government purchasing guidelines? In what has become the OGC’s most contentious vote to date, OGC members are being asked whether the proposed Geoservices REST API should be accepted as an OGC standard. A summary of concerns are listed in an Open Letter from the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) to the OGC. However, the crux of contentions hinge around the definition of an Open Standard and whether the Geoservices REST API qualifies as one. *When measured against government’s policy drivers of interoperability, fair competition, and economical use of government funds, the evidence is overwhelming. Geoservices REST API fails on all accounts. *In fact, we should be questioning why our OGC processes haven’t identified and then addressed these issues much earlier. The justification is in blog format (as hyperlinks to references don't copy well to some email clients): http://lisasoft.com/blog/will-ogc%E2%80%99s-standards-meet-government-purchasing-guidelines -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Dr. Peter Baumann - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann mail: p.baum...@jacobs-university.de tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178 - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 26793) www.rasdaman.com, mail: baum...@rasdaman.com tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882 Si forte in alienas manus oberraverit hec peregrina epistola incertis ventis dimissa, sed Deo commendata, precamur ut ei reddatur cui soli destinata, nec preripiat quisquam non sibi parata. (mail disclaimer, AD 1083) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Will OGC’s standards meet government purchasing guidelines?
In what has become the OGC’s most contentious vote to date, OGC members are being asked whether the proposed Geoservices REST API should be accepted as an OGC standard. A summary of concerns are listed in an Open Letter from the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) to the OGC. However, the crux of contentions hinge around the definition of an Open Standard and whether the Geoservices REST API qualifies as one. *When measured against government’s policy drivers of interoperability, fair competition, and economical use of government funds, the evidence is overwhelming. Geoservices REST API fails on all accounts. *In fact, we should be questioning why our OGC processes haven’t identified and then addressed these issues much earlier. The justification is in blog format (as hyperlinks to references don't copy well to some email clients): http://lisasoft.com/blog/will-ogc%E2%80%99s-standards-meet-government-purchasing-guidelines -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
