Industry based Geographic Standards Body (http://www.opengis.org/), compare contrast with ISO.
The Open GIS Consortium is responsible for generating the majority of the standards Geotools seeks to implement.
OGC Specifications & Reports
- CAT — Catalog Interface
- CTS — Coordinate Transform Service
- GCE — Grid Coverage Exchange
- Intergrated Client Report
- OWS
- Web Map Server — [GEOTOOLS:Web Map Server]
- SLD — Style Layer Descriptor
- WCS — Web Coverage Service
- WMS 1.0 — dated 2000-04-19
- WMS 1.1 — dated 2001-06-21
- WMS 1.1.1 — dated 2001-12-07
- WMS 1.3.0 — dated 2004-02-18
- WMS Context Document
- WMS Post — dated 2002-08-24
- WFS — Web Feature Server
- WRS