OpenGIS web services architecture description.

Abstract

This document describes many aspects of the OGC web services architecture, which the OGC is currently developing. This architecture is a service-oriented architecture, with all components providing one or more services to other services or to clients. Since that architecture is being developed largely informally, broad descriptions of that architecture have not been previously written. Because that architecture is not yet completed, some aspects are not described here, and other aspects may change in the future.