Motion: $900 for OGC CITE Certification GeoServer 2.27

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Hi PSC

As agreed in the last PSC meeting, we should proceed with CITE certification by paying for the initial re-certification on 2.27.1 ourselves.

  • There are several thousands ear-marked for this activity.
  • The consensus is to splurge on the initial re-certification and then to only do the free or most recent service versions in subsequent years.
  • OSGeo has not had to pay for any OGC certification costs up until now, so this process is new. Angelos has been tasked with discussing with the standards committee and the board to allocate budget for subsequent years.
  • We will ask OGC to invoice OSGeo; treasurer will then pay out of GeoServer funds.
  • Our understanding is that the OGC fee is an annual (12 months) licensing cost to use their “live logo” and that we can re-certify later in the year.

Hence the motion: to pay $900 from the PSC allocated funds to certifying ALL 12 applicable standards on the most recent 2.27 version (currently 2.27.1)

The previous motion was halted with a -1 for clarifications. Let’s get behind this one.

The motion will be held open until 20 June, please vote in the topic below:

EDIT: votes updated below

  • Alessio Fabiani
  • Andrea Aime +1
  • Ian Turton
  • Jody Garnett +1
  • Jukka Rahkonen +1
  • Kevin Smith
  • Nuno Oliveira
  • Peter Smythe +1
  • Simone Giannecchini +1
  • Torben Barsballe +1

Community response:

  • TBD

Thank you

Peter

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Feedback from Angelos:

There was no final decision about this in the last board meeting but
some initial discussion.
There is an action item for me to reach out to OGC and ask for better
options

3

+1 to do it once

4

+1

-Jukka Rahkonen-

5

+1 to do this once!

1 Like
6

+1

7

+1,

Cheers,
Torben

On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM Peter Smythe via OSGeo Discourse <noreply@discourse.osgeo.org> wrote:

Peter
June 5

Hi PSC

As agreed in the last PSC meeting, we should proceed with CITE certification by paying for the initial re-certification on 2.27.1 ourselves.

  • There are several thousands ear-marked for this activity.
  • The consensus is to splurge on the initial re-certification and then to only do the free or most recent service versions in subsequent years.
  • OSGeo has not had to pay for any OGC certification costs up until now, so this process is new. Angelos has been tasked with discussing with the standards committee and the board to allocate budget for subsequent years.
  • We will ask OGC to invoice OSGeo; treasurer will then pay out of GeoServer funds.
  • Our understanding is that the OGC fee is an annual (12 months) licensing cost to use their “live logo” and that we can re-certify later in the year.

Hence the motion: to pay $900 from the PSC allocated funds to certifying ALL 12 applicable standards on the most recent 2.27 version (currently 2.27.1)

The previous motion was halted with a -1 for clarifications. Let’s get behind this one.

The motion will be held open until 20 June, please vote in the topic below:

  • Alessio Fabiani
  • Andrea Aime
  • Ian Turton
  • Jody Garnett +1
  • Jukka Rahkonen
  • Kevin Smith
  • Nuno Oliveira
  • Peter Smythe +1
  • Simone Giannecchini
  • Torben Barsballe

Community response:

  • TBD

Thank you

Peter

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Today is the 20th, if there are no further votes, then I’ll declare the motion has passed with 6 +1 votes to do it once only, and I’ll proceed with the work.

Thank you

Peter

9

Thanks Peter, this will be good timing with respect to upcoming foss4g-eu conference.

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Ah hem… speaking of CITE tests… OGC API Tiles 1.0 is joining the party:

(requires version 1.1 of the test suite, available in the beta test engine, to pass,
there is a bug fix we need in there)

Cheers
Andrea

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Yay for OGC API Tiles 1.0! It shall be added to the list (next time).

Feedback from OGC has just been received: all but WMTS 1.0 have been/will be approved, we are still working on WMTS 1.0 (due to the test suite failures).

But, on the financial side, because OGC API - Features is split into Parts 1, 2 (and 3), the charge from OGC is an additional $150 for Part 2. I have queried this, in the hopes of getting some leniency.

We are progressing…

Peter

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WMTS 1.0 has been approved too.

The total charge is USD1050, which I have asked to be invoiced via treasurer@osgeo.org - I trust that this increase is acceptable?

Feedback from Gobe @ OGC:

Regarding OGC API – Features, yes, certification for each Part is charged $150 separately as it is a separate Standards document. The two parts therefore amount to $300 total. The executable test suite does not currently support Part 3, so we do not currently offer certification for Part 3.

I will also write up a blog post before FOSS4G Europe 2025

Peter

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Whoa, given the growing number of parts for each available standard, certifying OGC APIs will be an expensive business!
Just looking at OGC API Features, we’ll eventually also have:

  • Part 4, CRUD
  • Part 5, Schemas
  • Part 6, Property selection
  • Part 7, Geometry simplification
  • Part N, sorting…

Cheers
Andrea

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Great!

I believe it is, at least for this one time

Cheers
Andrea

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Perhaps that is feedback to provide to the standards groups; make standards in larger bites.

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Great news for us: the cost has been reduced by 50% to USD 525 (to align with the previous calendar year cycle), so that is an unexpected bonus!

Peter

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Awesome, thanks OGC!

Regards,

Andrea Aime

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Il mar 15 lug 2025, 12:47 Peter Smythe via OSGeo Discourse <noreply@discourse.osgeo.org> ha scritto:

Peter
July 15

Great news for us: the cost has been reduced by 50% to USD 525 (to align with the previous calendar year cycle), so that is an unexpected bonus!

Peter

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