Ideas4OGC Update on Ideas4OGC: Initial Recommendations (October 2013) Introduction Formally kicked off on June 20th, 2013, the Ideas for OGC (Ideas4OGC) process...
Topic: Adopt an active direction Certain topics are central to the work of the OGC and yet do not receive sufficent attention from the current system of voluntary...
Topic: Assess the various fora for discussion provided by the OGC The OGC provides various fora for discussion through ongoing teleconferences, the meetings of va...
Topic: "CITE TEAM Engine Simple Install" CITE TEAM Engine Shrink Wrap NGA is creating a formal process to test its GEOINT applications for compliance with OGC and...
Topic: Educational Outreach Develop high quality educational materials (intro, medium and advanced in Creative Commons licenses) as well as schedule regular webin...
Topic: Use of External Resources for Standards development Several suggestions have been made that the OGC should use external, online resources for its work. A s...
Topic: External Submissions How will OGC address externally submitted widely used standards, notably those that overlap or conflict with the existing baseline? Ad...
Topic: Formal Guidance Greater guidance to members on key issues is required. Vision and guidance on which standards to use for which purpose should be given by t...
Topic: Improve Communication The OGC includes many different participants working in many different work groups. Lack of effective communication between groups le...
Topic: Integrate OGC Programs Consider improvements to address disconnects or tensions between the OGC Interoperability Program and the OGC Standards Program. It ...
Topic: JSON The JSON format is extremely popular on the web. JSON however is just a data structure. The interoperable use of JSON requires the full definition of ...
As part of the "Ideas for OGC" effort, I recommend we consider a new approach toward developing standards. The current focus is too much on writing the actual spe...
Topic: OGC Architecture Board The OGC Architecture Board (OAB) is a formal group of members acting within the Technical Comittee. The group started with the missi...
Topic:OGC Naming Authority: "Who maintains common infrastructure: the OGC NA registry and resolvers?" The OGC NA is responsible for many shared identifiers used i...
Topic: Open OGC Processes The OGC has been criticized for being too closed, both internally and to the outside world. Internally, the processes of the OGC and th...
Topic: Performance Metrics Note: This topic has been replaced by TopicSelfAssessment which expands the scope of the issue. (Metrics only serve as part of a proc...
Topic: Standard Quality versus Quantity There is a constant tension in development between doing less, but doing it well, verses doing more with less attention to...
Topic: REST A widely shared feeling among many OGC members is that the OGC should develop a common position on the use of RESTful design elements in its standards...
Topic: "Reference Implementation" "Can we rename these?" In the software industry, 'Reference Implementations' act as a completement to standards; such references...
Topic: Review the GeoServices Process It may be worth the time for some group to take on an analysis of what happened leading up to this vote. If so, it should be...
Topic: SWG Creation The process for SWG Creation might include more consideration of the impact of the work of that SWG on the rest of the OGC. Relations to othe...
Main.AdrianCuster 26 Jul 2013 Additional comment(s): 1) Topic: SWG Procedure Create a more rigorous process/vote during the SWG charter process. Relations to ot...
Topic: Self Assessment The OGC should underake periodic self assessment reviews of its work towards its mission, integrating a mix of textual analysis by OGC Offi...
Topic: Simplify Votes The current policies and proceedures for adoption votes on standards are too complex and need to be simplified. This causes uncertainty and ...
Topic: Distinguish Specification Role The OGC should distinguish 'cross domain' and 'domain specific' standards. OGC has standards that are specific to a domain (...
Topic: Specification Document Complexity OGC Standards are often very complex documents making the standards hard to read and implement. Relations to other topic...
Topic: Specification Document Format The current documentation production system, in which documents are edited in Microsoft Word and then published in Portable D...
Topic: Specification Document Names The names of OGC Standards have not been restricted so far. As more standards arrive, with possibly duplicate roles, the name ...
Topic: Specification Document Policies The policies and requirements for the creation of new specification documents are complex. This causes confusion. There are...
Topic: Specification Innovation The OGC specifications must obviously evolve to support emergent technologies and shifts in markets. The issue of how this shifts ...
Topic: Standards Diversity A number of comments over the last year have expressed concern that perhaps the OGC is being too inclusive, too diverse, and/or too bro...
Topic: Technical Committe and Planning Committe Meetings Reduce the number of meetings. The number of meetings (4 a year for the TC) makes it hard to follow the d...
Topic: Tackle Mobile How will the OGC address the shifting technological landscape, in particular the rise of mobile environments, given its work on the web. How ...
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Topic: Update Vision and Mission Statements The intial recommendations are found here. The OGC could update its vision and mission statements. The current vision ...
Topic: Use GeoJSON The GeoJSON format is quite popular on the web. The OGC may want to adopt the format. However, while the format could be quite useful for OGC s...
Topic: Review and assess the Virtual TC Meeting The TC meeting of Spring 2013 was not held in any location but instead was a virtual meeting. Apparently the Plann...
Topic: Improve the Web Site Improve the OGC Website to highlight the main standards more prominently versus the extensions, with stats on implementations. It is h...
The OGC wants to improve. This "Ideas for OGC" (Ideas4OGC) Effort is collecting feedback, developing that feedback into a report which will be presented to the OG...
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