RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Re: [humanmarkup] Base Schema-chronemic

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Humans have sessions in the abstract sense as long 
as a conversation or communication has an begin time 
and end time.

What you are describing is virtual time.  It is an 
artifice for mapping to real time/clock time.  A 
set of names are provided that are mapped to durations 
where duration has a clock value.  That mapping enables 
scaling such as musical beats per minute, and 
which symbol (note) gets one beat in music.   Project 
schedulers use this concept.  So does SMIL and any 
hypermedia toolkit.  I don't think the notion of 
session as in an Internet connection is typically 
applicable to the human use or perception of time so 
I need some clarification as to why that is being 
introduced.

Geologists divide time over events in the earth's 
history into periods.  Archaeologists have a similar 
system.  Historians have these as well.  
In fact, this is a secondary schema set of 
names.  What the base has to provide is a means of 
describing the scaling or to borrow it, say from 
SMIL.  That a communication has a chronemic aspect 
should be expressible and simple.   The rule for how 
it affects the parties to the communication or the 
communication itself is in the secondary.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]

Session-specific, which means as long as an internet connection is 
active between two or more end-users, it is clock/virtual time.

Archeological, geological and anthropological, I don't have a term 
for, and would defer to the scholars in those arenas for help.