The need to establish a policy for the governance of building blocks.

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from the 2023-09 Member Meeting Important Things discussion

• OGC Rainbow (registered components) include those elements that we create; past SWG delivered components (e.g., definitions, requirements) governed by current policy. What about building blocks and their different types. Patterns of implementation could be registered as a resource and it would depend on the building blocks; mutiple registers for different levels of maturity
• the general rule of thumb is that everything defined in a Standard becomes valid and can thus be registered
• to be clear, the blocks themselves are governed by the owning SWG; the registered representations and how thay appear in Rainbow needs governance
• we need an understanding of the definition of a building block. The origin was that the building blocks were pieces of Standards that could be sued without using the whole Standard
• the mechanics of describing a building block need to be defined and we need governance of deciding which building blocks get registered and promoted for use
• do not understand why we need to cherry pick given that our SWGs create building blocks and define them and we register them
• there are other things that are developed in experimentation or use that function as building blocks and those need governance