Whats the difference between a testbed and a pilot?
OGC testbeds and pilots are complementary: A testbed is conducted to research, prototype, and document lessons learned from potential solutions to interoperability challenges and to develop, architect, test, and demonstrate engineering specifications, and changes to them, for solving specific interoperability requirements. Sometimes other materials are created such as lessons learned, gap analyses (descriptions of shortfalls and suggested future work), guidelines, and installation/user guides. A pilot project is collaborative effort that applies technology elements from the OGC Technical Baseline and other (that is, non-OGC) technologies to meet the requirements of sponsors’ application scenarios. The goal is to use the engineering specifications and reference software implementations in a much broader environment, presenting them to everyday users. While sometimes changes to draft or existing specifications may be recommended, that’s not the only goal of a pilot. In the pilot, real us
