The OGC Technical Committee recently approved four Naming Authority policies, an OGC Compliance
Test Language Best Practice, and a policy for writing and publishing OGC Standards.
The OGC has an officially registered Uniform Resource Name as defined in the Internet Engineering Task Force RFC 5165 and as registered with IANA. The OGC members have approved a set of policies and procedures for submitting URN proposals, reviewing such proposals, and providing the infrastructure for maintaining an OGC registry of resources, including URNs.
The OGC is an international consortium of more than 385 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OpenGIS Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
For more information please visit www.opengeospatial.org