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Subject: RE: [emergency] HAVE comments - explicitly identifying the normative parts in the data dictionary



I fully agree with everything that you wrote below.

Alessandro


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dwarkanath, Sukumar [mailto:Sukumar_Dwarkanath@sra.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 00:09
> To: Timothy Grapes; mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org; Alessandro 
> Triglia; Lee Tincher
> Cc: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [emergency] HAVE comments - explicitly 
> identifying the normative parts in the data dictionary
> 
> Great discussion and some good points - I agree with Lee that 
> we should follow consistent naming and design rules, and the 
> NIEM NDR is a definitely a good resource. I think we have 
> spoken about this a few times before and we all agree in 
> principle that we need to focus on the next steps in pursuing it. 
> 
>  
> 
> From my perspective, the schema should be the authoritative 
> artifact for all the XML elements and structure. As I see it, 
> the data dictionary provides additional clarification, as 
> needed, and provides a high level overview to non-technical 
> users. The normative parts in the data dictionary are mainly 
> the business rules and definitions - the reason we include 
> the usage and other information is to ensure that this 
> information is conveyed to non-technical users as well - I 
> think this is important as it eases the burden on 
> practitioners and does not force them to review technical documents. 
> 
>  
> 
> The proposed suggestion is for the near term, and is a 
> compromise to respond to Alessandro's overall comments of 
> ensuring well defined compliance statements are well defined. 
> It is clear that none of us are in favor of delaying HAVE at 
> this point - so, we should decide on moving forward at the earliest. 
> 
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> 
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> 
> Thanks
> 
>  
> 
> Sukumar
> 




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