Open Geospatial Consortium
OGC Doc 05-067r1
CR-Form-v3
CHANGE REQUEST
OWS 1.0.0 CR ?
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on using this form, see bottom of this page or look at the pop-up text over the symbols.Proposed change affects: AS Imp Spec X Recom. Paper Other
Title: Change ows namespace identifier URL to www.opengis.net
Source: Arliss Whiteside, BAE Systems, capturing an email discussion
Work item code: Date: 2005-08-18
Category: A
Use one of the following categories:
F (Critical correction)
A (corresponds to a correction in an earlier release)
B (Addition of feature)
C (Functional modification of feature)
D (Editorial modification)
Detailed explanations of the above categories can be found in the TC Policies and Procedures.
Reason for change: OGC Common 1.0.0 now uses http://www.opengeospatial.net/ows as the “ows” XML namespace identifier, whereas all other existing Implementation
Specifications use “opengis” instead of “opengrospatial” in their XML namespace identifiers.
Summary of change: Change “ows” namespace identifier URL from http://www.opengeospatial.net/ows to http://www.opengis.net/ows.
Consequences if
not approved: New OGC-specified XML namespace identifier URLs will include “opengrospatial” while old URLs will include “opengis”.
Clauses affected: 7.2.3, 7.4.8, 7.4.9, 8.5, 9.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.3.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4, 10.6.6, 11.6.6, 12.4, A, and all 9 attached XML Schema Documents
Other specs X Other core specifications Drafts for OWS 1.1 and many new
Implementation Specifications, plus current change request 05-065
Affected: Abstract specifications
Recommendation Papers
Other comments: 1. Personally, I don’t think this change is necessary.
2. One Replace command can make this change in each affected document 3. I think this change request can be handled as a corrigendum, but I think the
