[wfs-dev] WFS-Basic naming

[Simon.Cox@csiro.au]

Raj 

- I fear this would undercut two of the key OGC messages 
- i.e. that 
(1) normative encodings of community data-models are a key to deep
interoperability, and 
(2) normative use of common components is a key to any inter-community
interoperability. 

I recognise the difficulties of heavyweight GML. 
But we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater. 
GML provides some really really useful things, particularly in encoding
patterns (the Object-property rule; the by-rep or by-ref pattern). 
And a standard encoding for point geometry including CRS references,
which is being adopted in other communities now.  
Without these, XML encoding is chaos. 

Perhaps another approach would be an alternative UML-GML encoding rule,
that allows mapping from UML to "flattened" (denormalised) GML. 
i.e. something like UML -> GML-SF level 1

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: wfs-dev-bounces+simon.cox=csiro.au at opengeospatial.org
[mailto:wfs-dev-bounces+simon.cox=csiro.au at opengeospatial.org] On Behalf
Of Raj Singh
Sent: Wednesday, 1 November 2006 4:09 AM
To: wfs-dev at opengeospatial.org
Subject: [wfs-dev] WFS-Basic naming

There is an emerging data service specification targeted at mainstream,
generic data platforms being developed at: http://
www.ogcnetwork.net/wfsbasic.

I wanted to query this group on whether anyone would 'offended' by a
spec with WFS in the name that didn't mandate GML support. Comments?

thanks,
Raj
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