[georss] Creative Commons

[Jeff harrison]

Actually, there is no reason why a viable open specification for georss could not evolve under this model.  The "we" would be a "coalition of the willing". 

-----Original Message-----
From: "Allan Doyle"<adoyle at eogeo.org>
Sent: 06/08/06 4:30:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [georss] Creative Commons


On Jun 8, 2006, at 16:15, Marc wrote:

> Hi
>
>> In all cases, the folks doing development work using a given spec or
>> standard can feed enhancement/change requests into the organization
>> maintaining that spec or standard.
>>
> I think this is the important point in this discussion. How is the
> GeoRSS standard going to evolve? Who is maintaining it? Who decides
> which direction to take?

1. Someone turns what we have into a document and commits it to svn.  
Call that version 0.1

2. Any new changes are discussed, and when we hit consensus, they get  
made in the document and we bump the version number

3. At some point we all feel good about it and call it 1.0

4. Repeat 2 and 3 for 1.1 --> 2.0

Or forget the fancy numbering and just use SVN Revision numbers.

Anyone writing code should say what version numbers their code is  
designed for.

Once we hit the right level of functionality, we stop. My vote on  
stopping is sooner rather than later. I also prefer that changes be  
backwards compatible unless there's a real overarching reason to  
break that.

I do think we need a document rather than a web site as the normative  
version. I would not be averse to an 80 column ASCII (or is that  
UTF-8 these days) format.

So who is "we"? In OGC and W3C, it's the people who paid to be there.

I would prefer to have "we" be chosen under some criteria other than  
money.

	Allan


>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
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