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 Arrow work in a compatible way, with this specification focused solely on Parquet. We are in the process of becoming an [OGC](https://ogc.org) official
 [Standards Working Group](https://portal.ogc.org/files/103450) and are on the path to be a full OGC standard.
 
-**The OGC candidate Standard is at [https://docs.ogc.org/DRAFTS/24-013.html](https://docs.ogc.org/DRAFTS/24-013.html)**. The candidate Standard remains in draft form until it is approved as a Standard by the OGC Membership. 
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 **The latest [stable specification](https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.0.0/) and [JSON schema](https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.0.0/schema.json) are published at [geoparquet.org/releases/](https://geoparquet.org/releases/).**
 
 The 'dev' versions of the spec are available in this repo: