Principle 1: WIS 2.0 adopts Web technologies and leverages industry best practices and open standards
BENEFIT:
The use of widely adopted practices and open standards will enable a large population of users to conveniently interact with WIS 2.0 to discover, access, and use authoritative weather, water, and climate data. Web technologies and leverages industry best practices and open standards.
[1] Particularly open standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)