[OGC Press Release] The OGC Seeks Comment on Proposed Sensor Alert Service (SAS) Standard

[OGC Press]

PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For information about this announcement, contact:

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach at opengeospatial.org

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November 15, 2007, Wayland, Mass. - The Open Geospatial Consortium,
Inc. (OGC®) seeks public comment on a draft Sensor Alert Service
(SAS) Standard.

The draft OGC® Sensor Alert Service standard defines an alert and
notification mechanism that specifies how alert or alarm conditions
are defined, detected, and made available to interested users. The
Sensor Alert Service uses the Extensible Messaging and Presence
Protocol (XMPP) to provide the push-based notification functionality.
The focus of SAS is on alerts from sensors and sensor webs, a more
narrow scope than a complete Web-wide alerting service.

This draft standard can be downloaded from 
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/44.

Suggested additions, changes, and comments on this draft are welcome
and encouraged. Submit comments via email to
requests at opengeospatial.org. Extensive comments may be made by editing
the draft standard with track changes on. The public comment period
will remain open until December 15, 2007.

The OGC(R) is an international industry consortium of more than 340
companies, government agencies, research organizations, and
universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly
available geospatial standards. OpenGIS(R) Standards support
interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless
and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower
technology developers to make geospatial information and services
accessible and useful with any application that needs to be
geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at 
http://www.opengeospatial.org.