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 Anyone is welcome to join the project, by building implementations, trying it out, giving feedback through issues and contributing to the spec via pull requests.
 Initial work started in the [geo-arrow-spec](https://github.com/geoarrow/geoarrow) GeoPandas repository, and that will continue on
 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 releases you find in this repository do not correspond to approved versions of the standard, which is currently still in draft mode.
+[Standards Working Group](https://portal.ogc.org/files/103450) and are on the path to be a full OGC standard. The releases you find in this repository do not correspond to approved versions of the OGC standard, which is currently still in draft mode.
 
 **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/).**