Landon,
You have made some accusations about poor OGC standards and the
financial barrier to joining the OGC.
1. I'm with you on the financial barrier to joining the OGC. In
particular, I don't like OS developers being locked out of OGC's
testbeds (which is where the OGC tries out proposed standards).
Consequently, standards are being built outside of the OGC and "tested
in the wild" before they are adopted by the OGC. In particular, the
GeoRSS standard was developed outside the OGC then adopted. There is
currently work on a Tiled WMS spec and a GeoJSON spec which I expect the
OGC will adopt soon. These specs are being built by Open Source developers.
To me, this shows limitations in the OGC's membership criteria which is
locking out Open Source developers.
2. You make accusations that the standards don't work, and that you have
something better. I'd like to hear examples of this before I'd be ready
to agree with you.
What standards don't work?
What standards stifle innovation?
What standards to you need to do your work?
Dave Patton wrote:
Blammo wrote:
I'm not sure what to do about the monetary aspects of the Standards
participation.
What is needed is the equivalent of an "angel investor":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_investors
By that what I mean is a corporate entity that will
step forward and setup a model where money that would
otherwise be spent on memberships in standards bodies, etc.,
is put into a business model whereby the money funds
things like infrastructure, grants to individuals or
companies to provide resources to work on reference
implementations of standards, legal fees to make sure
that nobody can monopolize the results of the process,
etc. Such corporate entities have to be forward thinking,
and can gain competitive advantages in terms of good will,
being involved with a wide spectrum of development and
intellectual talent, and maybe even attracting some
'anti-establishment types' to work for 'their team' ;-)
--
Cameron Shorter
Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
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