[georss] KML into OGC

[Allan Doyle]

On Mar 3, 2007, at 22:09, Raj Singh wrote:

> 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.

I think the OGC definition of a BPP is stronger than that -

<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=12586> states:
Best Practices Document: A document containing discussion of best  
practices related to
either the use and/or implementation of an adopted OGC document or an  
OpenGIS
candidate specification that has not be submitted using the RFC  
process but is considered
mature enough for implementation and for release to the public. Best  
Practices
Documents are an official position of the OGC and thus represent an  
official endorsement
of the content of the paper.

"related to either the use and/or implementation of an adopted OGC  
document or an OpenGIS
candidate specification" would indicate a strong probability that the  
subject of the BPP will become an OGC spec.

" official endorsement of the content of the paper" indicates more  
than "potentially disparate technology ideas"

I think a BPP replaces the former Recommendation Paper.

In the case of KML, to do what Raj suggests, I would have expected  
first a Discussion Paper.

	Allan

> 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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