The 54th
meeting of the OGC Technical and Planning Committees was held in St.
Johns, Newfoundland, June 13th-17th.The meeting, hosted by Compusult
Ltd.with co-sponsorship from many Newfoundland agencies and
organizations, was extremely productive and successful.The key actions
and recommendations resulting from the meeting are listed below.
- Release of the candidate specification GML in
JPEG 2000 for Geographic Imagery (GMLJP2) for a 30 day public comment
period.
- Release of the GML Simple Features Profile
Specification for a 30 public comment period followed by an electronic
vote for approval as an adopted OpenGIS Specification.
- Approval to release two new OGC White Papers:
"Interoperability and Open Architectures: An analysis of existing
standardisation processes and procedures" and the "SIDP Notional
Architecture Executive Summary."
- Approval to release a new version of the Catalog
Services - Web ebRIM Profile.ebRIM is an OASIS standard for an ebXML
Registry Information Model [ebRIM].It provides information on the
types of metadata that are stored in the Registry as well as the
relationships among the various metadata classes.
- Approval to release a new OGC Discussion paper
titled "GeoXACML, a Spatial Extension of XACML." XACML
(Extensible Access Control Markup Language) is an OASIS standard.
- Approval to have an electronic vote for the
adoption of ISO 19136, after minor edits, as GML 3.2.
- Approval to release the GML Point Profile as an
OGC Discussion paper.
- Approval to release the Web Processing Service
(WPS) candidate implementation specification as an OGC Discussion Paper.
- Endorsement of a joint ISO/OGC editing team to
move Web Feature Service and Filter Encoding as ISO COmmitee Drafts.
The next OGC meetings will be held in Bonn, Germany in
November.