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Name:
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Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos
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CubeWerx Inc.
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pvretano@cubewerx.com
Document
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Web Service Common Implementation Specification / 2.0.0
OGC Project
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06-121r9
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Title:
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Add service id field to service identification section.
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pvretano@cubewerx.com
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B (Addition of feature)
Reason for
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The only way catalogues have to distinguish one OGC service instance from another is by using the service's URL (e.g its base URL or GetCapabilities URL) which is not a reliable method. So, there needs to be some other, more robust, way for a catalogue to distinguish one OGC from another when it harvests them.
Summary of
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OGC Change Request
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/public_ogc/cr_admin.php?CR...
Add a "ServiceInstanceId" field to the service
identification section of the capabilities document. The value of the ServiceInstanceId shall be a fixed UUID. This way, a catalogue can distinguish one OGC service instance from another. It is important that this value be mandatory and that it be universally unique --hence the UUID requirement.
Consequences if
not approved:
It just makes it that much harder for OGC catalogues to harvest OGC services because they need to implement complex URL comparison
functions in order to be able to robustly distinguish one OGC service instance from another.
