The mission of the OAB is to provide a forum within which Consortium wide standards architecture issues can be discussed and deliberated with the intent of providing guidance and recommendations to the TC and the PC on these issues.
Specifically, the OGC Architecture Board works with the TC and the PC to insure architecture consistency of the Baseline and provide guidance to the OGC membership to insure strong life cycle management of the OGC standards baseline. In order to properly provide such guidance and perform the Governance functions as outlined below, the OAB can, at its discretion, evaluate current technology issues and identify gaps in the architecture that need to be responded to by the Membership.
The elected membership of the OAB as of the close of the October 2008 election are:
- Andreas Matheus, U. of Bundeswehr (ITIS)
- Arnulf Christl, Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGeo
- Simon Cox, CSIRO/JRC
- Doug Nebert, USGS
- Graham Vowles, Ordnance Survey
- John Herring, Oracle
- Josh Lieberman, Traverse Technologies
- Mike Botts, UAH
- Nicolas Lesage, IGN
- Paul Scarponcini, Bentley
- Rick Pearsall, NGA
- Satish Sankaran, ESRI
OAB Emeritus Members who have requested observer status:
- Charles Roswell, Individual
- Peter Vretanos (CubeWerx)
The Voting member representing OGC staff is George Percivall, OGC Chief Architect. The OAB is facilitated and Chaired by Carl Reed of OGC staff. The OAB Policies and Procedures can be downloaded from the OGC website.