Unfortunately certification (approach/strategy) instead of helping the industry become more mature, plays as an obstacle which slow down improvements in the OpenBIM environment
buildingSMART is focused more on “just corporations” which caused become “a corporate-driven closed-door boys club”
It means that corporations control the industry through buildingSMART and even other tools even like ISO
ODA has a better structure but again it has another issues like it’s not a non-profit
@stefkeB Don’t remember that even buildingSMART today knows EDM-toolkit is not a good solution and has started to focus on some approaches like UML (I hope UML 2)
And IFD and IFC have other issues inherently too
Developing toolkits I don’t think be hard, and I ensure that countries who have started their own “national digital platforms/projects” if want can develop even new toolkits