March 2008 OGC Meetings, St.
Louis, Missouri

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(Information Technology)

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March 2008 OGC Technical and Planning Committee Meetings held in St.
Louis Missouri.

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Abbreviations

• BP - Best Practice
• DWG - Domain Working Group
• GML - Geography Markup Language
• PC - Planning CommitteeRB - Review Board
• SWG - Standards Working Group
• TC - Technical CommitteeWG - Working Group

Technical
Committee Policy and Procedure Motions

Best Practice
Motion: Full e-vote now required

Beginning April 1, 2008 all
Best Practice document motions will require a full e-vote procedure.
Such a motion shall be made by a Working Group to the full TC and shall
be endorsed by both the TC and the PC. The voting period shall commence
on a date agreed to by the document authors and will last for a period
of 3 weeks.

• Reason: So that we do not
  cheapen the value of an OGC formal endorsement by instances of
  ill-considered Best Practice votes, or at least putting in a
  requirement for an early announcement of the intent to go to a Best
  Practice vote in the TC.
• No IPR review is required
• Only
  TC Voting Members may vote.

There was no objection
to unanimous consent.

Revisions to the TC P&P

• Made the definitions for a Best Practice document
  consistent
• Removed any indication that a Best Practice has
  any more likelihood of becoming an OGC standard than anything else.
• Replaced
  the Interoperability Program Report definition with the
  Engineering report definition.
• Made sure the section
  on Corrigendum reflected the decisions made at the Milan TC/PC
  meetings.
• Added matrix of vote types and who can vote by
  vote type.
• Added some additional clarifications related to
  the new Individual Member category
• Added clarification
  as to who are charter members for SWGs
• Added additional
  information regarding SWGs and voting.

Revised TC
P&P Motion

The TC and PC approved release of the revision
to the Technical Committee Policies and Procedures (Pending document OGC
05-020r11) as the official OGC TC Policies and Procedures replacing the
current TC P&P.

There was no objection to unanimous
consent.

Revised Review Board P&P

The TC and PC
approved release of the Review Board Policies and Procedures Revision
[OGC 06-012r2] as the official RB P&P and that this document replace
the current version on the OGC web site.

• The
  Review Board function is to be the final forum for arbitration of
  issues in the OGC process that cannot be resolved using the normal
  policies and procedures
• This version of the RB P&P
  removes RB involvement in the approval of Interoperability
  Experiments.

There was no objection to unanimous consent.

Document Votes and Motions

OGC URN Motion

The
TC and PC approved release of OGC URN Document 07-107r3 as an OGC Best
Practice and deprecate the OGC 06-166 URN Discussion Paper.

• Namespace: ogc Registration Number: 37
• Document
  [RFC-creed-ogc-urn-03.txt]
• Still awaiting final IETF
  RFC number

There was no objection to unanimous consent.

Note that this document should eventually move to standards status.

Web Map Context Corrigendum

The TC and PC approved
release of the Web Map Context Corrigendum as documented in OGC document
08-050.

• Fix schema naming
• Fix
  schema location path
• Fix LayerType in schema

There
was no objection to unanimous consent.

Architecture Domain
WG Motion

The TC and PC approved release of 08-000, OGC
Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Summary Report as an OGC
Discussion Paper

• Pending and final edits
  and review by OGC staff

There was no objection to
unanimous consent.

Architecture Domain WG Motion

The TC
and PC approved release of OGC Document 08-009r2, OWS 5 SOAP/WSDL
Common Engineering Report as an OGC Discussion Paper, replacing the
original version approved in Stresa.

• Pending
  and final edits and review by OGC staff

There was no
objection to unanimous consent.

Catalogue Domain WG Motion

The TC and PC approved release of 07-153, Data View Architecture
Engineering Report as an OGC Discussion Paper

• Pending
  and final edits and review by OGC staff

There was no
objection to unanimous consent.

Coverages Domain WG Motion

The TC and PC approved release of the Web Coverage Processing
Service (WCPS) document as revised Best Practice Paper, replacing
OGC 06-035r1

• Latest Coverage Processing
  Service (WCPS) specification consists of Engineering
  Specification [OGC 08-059] and Abstract Test Suite [OGC
  08-053]

There was no objection to unanimous consent.

Coverages Domain WG Motion

This is a follow-on to the schema discussion
regarding Corrigendum

The TC and PC approved an OGC policy
change that obsolete XML schemas, meaning those changed by approved
corrigenda, be made invalid by:

• Making all
  XML Schema Documents invalid (not just top document)
• Inserting
  in each XML Schema Document un-bracketed text before the root
  element <schema> which:
  • States
    that this XML Schema Document has been deliberately made invalid,
  • References
    a document explaining the reason, and
  • References
    the current schema location

There was no objection to
unanimous consent.

Coordinate Reference System WG Motion

The TC and PC approved release of an E-Vote for adoption of OGC
08-015 Topic 2 Spatial Referencing by Coordinates as revision to the
existing OGC Abstract Specification Document

• OGC
  08-015 contains contents of ISO/TC211 International Standard
  19111:2007
• Pending review and hosting by OGC staff

There was no objection to unanimous consent.

CRS Domain
WG Motion

The TC and PC approved release of Topic 2 Change
Request (CR) - Correct Grid Cell Terms (OGC 08-010), as change to new
version of Topic Volume 2

• Requests minor
  edits and correction of Topic 2 UML model for select attributes of
  Image Datum Class (Tables 39 and 40)
• Minor wording changes
  requested by various CRS WG attendees during the review of the CR. Will
  make changes to the new Topic 2. Will add change notes to the edited
  Topic 2. Contact OGC JAG about these changes to Topic 2

There was no objection to unanimous consent.

CRS Domain
WG Motion

The TC and PC approved release of Abstract
Specification (AS) - General Reference System (OGC 08-008) as an OGC
Discussion Paper

• After appropriate changes
  requested by CRS WG are made:
  • Major
    Change: Make UML Model of this new Draft AS stand-alone as possible
    (less integrated with Topic 2 UML Model)
  • Re-use as
    appropriate the UML model classes (and attributes) of Topic Volume 2
    and other AS documents models as much a possible
• Minor
  wording edits as appropriate

There was no objection to
unanimous consent.

Geography Markup Language Domain
WG Motion

The TC and PC approved release of 08-001 "Loosely
Coupled Synchronization of Geographic Databases in the CGDI" and 08-002
"CGDI GML Best Practices Engineering Report" as an OGC Discussion
Document

There was no objection to unanimous consent.

GML
Domain WG Motion

The TC and PC approved staff taking an action
to coordinate with ISO/TC 211 to address the new capabilities of
spatiotemporal CRS (ISO 19111:2007) and parametric CRS (ISO/DIS 19111-2)
in revisions of ISO 19107, ISO 19108 and ISO 19123.

There was no
objection to unanimous consent.

Geometry Ad-hoc Motion

The
TC and PC approved the JAG facilitating submission of the following
comment to ISO TC211 regarding their NWIP for Revision of ISO 19125-2,
Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 2: SQL Option:

• Fix the problems identified in Clauses 3.1,
  3.2, 3.3, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 and 3.14 of ISO/TC211 N2364 (OGC
  07-136r1), "Spatial Harmonization Opportunities".
• There was no
  objection to unanimous consent

OGC Location Services
RWG

The TC and PC approved an electronic adoption vote and IPR
review for OGC Open Location Services (OLS) Version 1.3 [OGC 08-028r1]

• To commence after some minor edits to the
  document
• There was no objection to unanimous consent.

Web Coverage Service SWG Motion: WCS Corrigendum

The
TC and PC approved release of WCS 1.1 Corrigendum 2, consisting of
pending documents OGC 07-067r5 and 07-066r5, which include three small
additional changes from OGC 07-067r3 and 07-066r3.

• There
was no objection to unanimous consent

Informational

CityGML

Currently out for Public Comment

There will be a 3-D
Information Management/BIM with a CityGML focus Interoperability Day
during the OGC Meetings in Potsdam, June 2008

Based on
comments received during the public comment period and a review by the
OGC Architecture Board, the target date to release CityGML for an
adoption vote by the OGC membership in the May/Jun timeframe

Harmonization
of geo-referencing metadata

Formation of an ad-hoc working
group to harmonize geo-referencing metadata for unrectified images

• Harmonize this in Web Coverage Service (WCS),
  SensorML, GML, GMLJP2, IGM, ISO 19130, and others

GML
3.2.1 Standard Revision

Accepting new Change Request
Proposals for GML 3.2.1 until the end of September 2008 TC meeting

OGC will announce this solicitation for Change Request Proposals
publicly with the cut-off date

GML 3.3 will be fully backwards
compatible

Sensor Semantics Community of Interest

Will
set up a RDF-based Semantic Dictionary framework with web page and web
services interface

Ad-hoc committee formed

Workflow
ad-hoc

The Attendees of the Workflow Ad Hoc recommended that
the OGC Technical Committee form a Workflow Domain Working Group. There
was no objection.

The Attendees of the Workflow Ad Hoc
recommended that the OGC Technical Committee approve a call for
Participation in the Creation of a Best Practices Paper for a Conflation
Web Processing Service