Naming Authority Policy Documents

OGC API Naming Policies

This document is a draft policy of the OGC Naming Authority (OGC-NA), a sub-committee of the OGC Technical Committee. The document defines a series of policy requirements for OGC API standards, repositories, definitions, and specification elements. The policy document is intended to be a specialization of the OGC-NA policy on naming specification elements (OGC 10-103).

Download: Naming of OGC API Standards, Repositories & Specification Elements (20-059r4)

OGC Naming Authority (OGC-NA) Policies & Procedures

This document describes the procedures used by the OGC Naming Authority for the assignment and registration of OGC names.

Download: OGC Naming Authority: Policies and Procedures (09-046r6)

OGC-NA Name type specification – documents

This document specifies a rule for constructing OGC names that may be used for identifying documents and elements within a document.

Download: OGC-NA Name type specification – documents (09-047r3)

OGC-NA Name type specification – definitions: Part 1 – basic name

This document specifies a rule for constructing OGC names that may be used for identifying definitions.

Download: OGC-NA Name type specification – definitions (09-048r7)

OGC-NA Name type specification – ontology resources

This document specifies a rule the use of the /ont/ namespace for ontology resources.

Download: OGC-NA Name type specification – ontology resources (12-081)

OGC-NA Name type specification – specification elements

This document specifies a rule for constructing OGC names that may be used for identifying specification elements defined in the OGC Specification Model – Modular Specification.

Download: OGC-NA Name type specification – specification elements (10-103r1)

OGC Name Type Specification – Sensor Models and Parameters

This document specifies a rule for constructing OGC names that may be used for identifying definitions of sensor models and their parameters.

Download: OGC Name Type Specification – Sensor Models and Parameters (18-042r4)

A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

The Official IETF RFC 5165 : This document describes a Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace that is engineered by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for naming persistent resources published by the OGC. The formal Namespace IDentifier (NID) is “ogc”.

Download:  A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)