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Two recent posts from gisblog have been mentioned and commented on in the latest OGC newsletter.

The OGC’s comment on OGC WMS Becomes ISO Standard:

OGC staff responds: OGC has worked with ISO for many years. The OGC members agreed to release WMS to ISO to be approved as an ISO standard. The OGC and ISO had a joint edit team that worked on WMS resulting in IS19128:2005 which is identical to WMS 1.3. Each organization has its own vision and process. While we understand that some documents seem to take quite a while to be approved, we also believe that input from ISO to OGC and from OGC to ISO has been most valuable in creating the best standards possible.

There is another comment on Importance of GIS Blogs:

The editor notes that there’s still quite a lot of confusion, in the blogosphere and elsewhere, between open source and open standards.

OGC staff responds: “Open source” refers to software products where source code is made available freely for all to use and change. “Open standards” refer to interfaces and encodings that enable interoperability between various software applications and data. In the OGC, open standards are developed using an open, consensus process, are non-discriminatory in their use, are royalty free, and are publicly available for anyone to implement anywhere at anytime. OpenGIS standards are implemented broadly in all kinds of commercial and open source software solutions.

Maybe I missed the point here, but the post is not talking about open source or open standards at all (at least not as far as I can see…) Maybe the comment refers to the term standardization community, which is not the same as the open source community?

By the way, the monthly OGC newsletter’s editor is Adena Schutzberg, who is also one of the most active editors over at All Points Blog.

Carsten Keßler @ Thursday, 12. January 2006 ,11:13 :: filed under unter News :: RSS comments .