[wfs-dev] WFS-Basic naming

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Simon -

Perhaps there is some middle ground. For example, in the emergency 
management community, the CAP (Common Alert Protocol) standard from OASIS is 
gaining major traction. it represents a normative encodings of a community 
data-model for alerting. Sure would be nice if a WFS could export or ingest 
a CAP alert (which is not GML but is XML, although the next revision will 
have the location elements encoded as GML (optional)). This would limit 
other payload encodings to those formally approved by an SDO or SSO. This 
would be inline with what WCS does.

Cheers

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Simon.Cox at csiro.au>
To: <rsingh at opengeospatial.org>; <wfs-dev at opengeospatial.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [wfs-dev] WFS-Basic naming


> 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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