Given the spat at OGC with regard to Geoservices REST API, its high time that we ditch OGC and start a clean standardization body. We need futuristic standards and that can take the geospatial industry forward, not as in ESRI. I see that the team at Mapbox is ideal for that and lets hope that can take the lead

Where can I find more info about this "spat"?

The 'spat' broke out on the OGC Mailing list, here's the May Archive: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/ There are about 100 messages about it on there.

There's also this Open Letter: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API#Open_Letter_...

And James Fee's view on the whole thing: http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2013/05/09/esri-and-an-ogc-stan...