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| Subject: | RE: GISList: RE: OGC and Standards, - a response |
| Date: |
12/11/2002 09:24:07 PM |
| From: |
Anthony Quartararo |
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Carl,
Why was OGC needed in the first place ? It would appear the key players
(the fab five...) could have hashed this all out a decade ago. In OGC's
own FAQ under "Why is OGC necessary?", it states that it [OGC] "brings
together the key players and provides a formal structure for achieving
consensus on the common interfaces." So, if an organization is not part
of OGC, it is not a key player, and to follow, the consensus (a perilous
strategy) is only from those key players? Wasn't it Henry Ford who once
said, "you can have any color as long as it is black." We can choose
whichever specification we want, as long as it's OGC's ?
"We rely on an technology infrastructure framework (http, XML, XSLT,
ebRIM,
etc) that is provided by other organizations. But are the problems they
are trying to solve orders of magnitude more complex? I am not so sure
about that. I like to quote something attributed to Albert Einstein: "As
a young man, my fondest dream was to become a Geographer. However, while
working in the Patent Office, I thought deeply about the matter and
concluded that it was far too difficult a subject. With some reluctance,
I then turned to Physics as a substitute." Trying to solve semantic
interoperability issues in the geospatial domain is very complex."
I'm not diminishing the complexity of fundamental geographic problems
(no one has yet to figure out how to make a perfect map of the globe), I
am simply stating that deciding on changes to the very fabric of the
internet has incredibly large ramifications across all domains,
countries, industries, products, etc. that leverage that technology.
Deciding how AutoCAD passes a representation of an electric circuit
diagram to Oracle, to be represented in an ArcIMS website is not on the
same order of complexity (granted, that's a simplified example).
Anthony
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