OGC TC Meeting, Paris
This was originally intendend to be a live blog from the ongoing OGC TC Meeting in Paris, but live blogging relies on an internet connection. And as usual on conferences, wireless has been promised but fails in the moment it is needed. Anyway, I managed to get online somehow.
This is my first TC Meeting, and my collegues warned me before. The discussions will be exhausting they said, and they will argue about every word in the documents. The day started with the plenary, which was interesting. There was a short review of the recent ISO Meeting in Rome, and a small discussion started about the involvment of OGC in the ISO standardization process. The commen sense here seems to be that ISO should adapt OGC standards and OGC should take care that ISO does not break the OGC standards during adaption and modification. There has alo been a major rewrite of OGC’s IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) policy. In the future OGC tries to make their standardization process more transparent by making everything available to the public. To make the process better traceable, everything is getting a bit more formalized, which means even change requests are now official OGC documents and have to follow a default procedure. Nice move, I think.
Afterwards I attended the Geosemantics WG, which was really crowded. As long as somebody uses the words “semantics” or “ontology” in his work, everyone seems to be interested and pretends to listen. That only few at OGC have an idea what adding semantics to an application could mean, is pretty sad though. The next sessions were Data Quality and Context. The latter was really weird and an interesting example how one can spent one hour of talking about absolutly nothing.
To summarize the first day, I would say that the warning of my collegue was plainly wrong. No fierce discussions, no arguments, nothing at all. I wonder how standards can be developed in such boredom 
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