I am in the honourable position of having been asked to co-chair the WG, thus you see my email in the original CC. IETF don't know anything about my bona fides, which I hope are vaguely adequate for the case. I look forward to seeing it happen and would be happy to help channel any OSM community input into the WG in a more formal way.
-- Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net On Thu, Feb 5, 2015, at 06:20 PM, Tom Taylor wrote: > Thought this proposed new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) > activity might be of interest. > > Tom Taylor > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: [dispatch] Forming and chartering a GeoJSON WG > Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:59:04 -0800 > From: Erik Wilde <d...@berkeley.edu> > To: dispa...@ietf.org > CC: Pete Resnick <presn...@qti.qualcomm.com>, metaz...@fastmail.net, > Sean Gillies <sean.gill...@gmail.com>, Barry Leiba > <barryle...@computer.org> > > hello. > > On 2015-02-03 16:40 , Richard Barnes wrote: > > Sorry for the delay here. It looks like the next step here is to send a > > charter proposal to the DISPATCH mailing list, dispa...@ietf.org > > we have had conversations about establishing an IETF WG for GeoJSON, > which would be chartered with taking the current GeoJSON definition, and > turning it into an IETF RFC. the next step in this process seems to be > proposing a charter. please find the proposed charter in this email to > dispa...@ietf.org, and it also is available online here: > > https://github.com/geojson/draft-geojson/blob/master/charter.md > > ============================================================== > > Proposed GeoJSON WG Charter > > GeoJSON > > GeoJSON is a geospatial data interchange format based on JavaScript > Object Notation (JSON). It was published at http://geojson.org in 2008. > It has succeeded in streamlining geographic information system standards > and making them accessible to practitioners of modern web development. > GeoJSON today plays an important role in many spatial databases, web > APIs, and open data platforms. > > This WG will work on a GeoJSON Format RFC that specifies the format more > precisely and serves as a better guide for implementers. The work will > start from an Internet-Draft written by the original authors. This I-D, > draft-butler-geojson-04, substantially improves the format > specification. The remaining tasks of the WG are: > > * Further clarification of the GeoJSON format specification. > * Addition of implementation advice based on lessons learned since 2008. > * geoAddition of more explicit extension advice to the specification. > > The addition of new features to the GeoJSON format is not within the > scope of this WG. One possible exception to this (depending on WG > consensus) is the adoption of JSON Text Sequences as an alternative way > of serializing sets of GeoJSON objects. > > ============================================================== > > thanks a lot and kind regards, > > dret. > > -- > erik wilde | mailto:d...@berkeley.edu - tel:+1-510-2061079 | > | UC Berkeley - School of Information (ISchool) | > | http://dret.net/netdret http://twitter.com/dret | > > _______________________________________________ > dispatch mailing list > dispa...@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dispatch > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk