OGC Issues Request for Quotation for Second Thread of Web Services Initiative
jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, March 14, 2002 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that a Call for Participation / Request for Quotation (CFP/RFQ) for the Second Thread of the OGC Web Services Initiative is available for download at http://ip.opengeospatial.org/ows1.2 .OWS Thread Set 2 will build on the successful results of previous OGC Interoperability Program initiatives.A primary goal of this collaboration is to extend engineering specifications developed in OWS Thread Set 1 and other initiatives including: OGC Common Architecture, Web Mapping, Imagery Exploitation and Sensor Web specifications.Inquiries related to OWS should be addressed to Mr. Jeff Harrison, Executive Director of OGC Interoperability Programs,, or (703) 491-9543.The OGC Web Services Initiative is part of OGCs Interoperability Program, a global, collaborative, hands-on engineering and testing program that rapidly delivers proven candidate specifications into OGCs Specification Program, where they are formalized for public release.