| The goal of this document is to provide a definition and rationale for a proposed INSPIRE SOAP
framework (SOAP nodes policy, RPC, attachments, WS-I, WSDL…) taking into account the issues
and solutions pertaining to the specific geospatial domain (for example GML handling in SOAP
messages or interfaces definition of the OGC specifications). For the peculiarities and existing
solutions of the geospatial domain we will refer at the findings reported in “SOAP HTTP Binding
Status, Survey on OGC and ORCHESTRA specifications relevant for the INSPIRE Network
Services”1, that describes the status of SOAP HTTP binding of those services relevant to INSPIRE
Network Services, thus including OGC/ISO specifications (CSW, WMS, WFS, WPS, WCTS and
WCS) and implementation (OWS3-5), as well as IST ORCHESTRA relevant services. |
