[georss] KML into OGC

[Raj Singh]

Someone mentioned the speed of adopting KML. Let me add a point I  
don't think has been made yet. Making KML an OGC Best Practices (BP)  
paper does NOT make it an OGC standard. OGC technologies are usually  
discussed by members only for awhile. The BP status is supposed to be  
a way to encapsulate potentially disparate technology ideas into a  
package that *could* become a specification so that people know  
exactly what is being proposed and know that the intellectual  
property issues are taken care of.

In this case everyone already knows the KML technology, so this step  
is partially moot. So the best way to think about an OGC KML BP paper  
is that it starts an official commenting process which will lead to  
an OGC standard.
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Raj