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Subject: Re: [regrep] ACTION Required: FW: INCITS-L8-INTEREST: Re: Preliminarycomments from OASIS Reg/Rep



I found the font hard to read so I converted relevant parts of the email 
to a pdf document (see attached). HTH.

Breininger, Kathryn R wrote:
> Please see the comments below from the L8 on ISO 11179, mostly looking 
> for clarification on our submission. Please plan to review and discuss 
> at our next telecon on June 12th, as they need our response to answer 
> their questions in time for their meeting the next week.
> Kathryn
>
> *Kathryn Breininger*
> Manager, Release & Delivery Services
> CIMS - Center for Information Management Services
>
> MC 62-LC
> 425-965-0242 desk
> 425-512-4281 cell
> 425-237-4582 fax
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Bargmeyer [mailto:bebargmeyer@lbl.gov]
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 31, 2009 9:24 AM
> *To:* Breininger, Kathryn R
> *Subject:* FW: INCITS-L8-INTEREST: Re: Preliminary comments from OASIS 
> Reg/Rep
> *Importance:* High
>
> Kathryn,
>
> I forwarded the OASIS Reg/Rep comments directly to the SC 32 
> Secretariat for inclusion with other comments received for the ballot 
> on 11179-3.
>
> L8 discussed the comments you sent and had some responses, mostly 
> seeking some clarification. Kevin Keck wrote up the following. The “I” 
> refers to Kevin after discussion with L8.
>
> If you have any additional responses, we will consider them during the 
> ballot resolution meeting in Jeju, Korea, scheduled for the week of 
> June 22.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Bruce
>
> ----Sent by--------------------------
>
> Bruce Bargmeyer
>
> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>
> University of California
>
> 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 50B-2231A
>
> Berkeley, California 94720
>
> Tel: +1 510-495-2905
>
> Fax: +1 510-486-4004
>
> email: bebargmeyer@lbl.gov <mailto:bebargmeyer@lbl.gov>
>
> *From:* Breininger, Kathryn R [mailto:kathryn.r.breininger@boeing.com]
>
> *Sent:* Friday, May 01, 2009 9:25 AM
>
> *To:* BEBargmeyer@lbl.gov <mailto:BEBargmeyer@lbl.gov>
>
> *Cc:* ebXML Regrep
>
> *Subject:* RE: FW: [regrep] FW: Comments solicited -- ISO/IEC CD2 
> 11179-3 andISO/IEC 19763 Part 3
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Thank you again for inviting us to comment on the ISO 11179-3. The TC 
> met yesterday and finalized the comments, which are included below. 
> Please let us know if you have any questions or any comments on our 
> comments!
>
> Overall, we find that the spec is a very well put together. Here are 
> some comments we have compiled so far:
>
> Technical Comments:
>
>     * 5.1.3 Contact, 5.1.5 Individual: Person <=> Contact model
>       mismatches
>           o Suggest aligning with regrep with a common Party class
>             that Organization and Person extend
>           o Add address, phone etc. to Party
>           o Direction of relationship between contact_info and
>             Individual is not intuitive. An individual has
>             contact_info and not the other way around.Consider
>             reversing the relationship
>           o Take away title from Person and instead make it an
>             attribute of association with an organization (titles or
>             roles are in the context of a relationship with some
>             organization)
>
> The term Individual was used in preference to Person because in WG1 
> (of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32) Person is defined in the legal sense, which 
> actually corresponds to what OASIS calls a Party.
>
> There also seems to be confusion reflected here about the meaning of 
> the Contact class, which is not simply a record structure for contact 
> information, it instead represents a *role* of a Person (Individual) 
> within some Organization, i.e., is (logically) an association between 
> a Person (Individual) and an Organization. It is for this reason that 
> title is not an attribute of Person (Individual), it is an attribute 
> of Contact. It is also intentional that phone, etc. are not attributes 
> of Person (Individual) either, but rather of Contact. The US TAG has 
> discussed changing the name of the Contact class to Representative, in 
> part to hopefully make this more clear. I suggest we include that 
> suggestion in our ballot comments for CD2.
>
> I do not feel strongly about whether to include a Party superclass in 
> the 11179-3 metamodel, but it was decided previously by the US that 
> such a class was not needed for the purposes of 11179-3, and thus 
> imposing a requirement that implementations provide such a supertype 
> was not justified. Absence of the supertype in the 11179-3 metamodel 
> should not preclude implementations from having such a supertype, the 
> issue is whether it should be required as a matter of conformance.
>
>     * 6.1.2.2 Scoped_Identifier:
>       Suggest simplifying identifier scheme. Consider providing an
>       example that maps to a URN naming scheme
>
> I agree that an example would be very helpful. I will propose a ballot 
> comment to provide at least one, in an annex.
>
>     * 6.1.2.4 Slot: Thanks for the good alignment here
>
> No comment called for on ballot, but thank you.
>
>     * 6.2 Designation and Definition region: This clause is very
>       difficult to follow. Its not clear what a Designatable_Item is.
>       Suggests providing examples and clearer definition
>           o designation_sign attribute is particularly not clear
>
> I will propose a ballot comment calling for some examples in clause 
> 6.2.2.3.1.
>
> I will also propose a ballot comment suggesting a better definition of 
> designation_sign in clauses 3.4.45 and 6.2.2.3.2.1. Working new 
> definition: sign denoting the designatable item, as represented by a 
> designation.
>
>     * 7.1 Registration metamodel region: Consider aligning this
>       section with ISO 19135
>
> Could you be more specific about what parts of 19135 and 11179-3 ought 
> to be (better) aligned?
>
> I would note that 19135 includes 11179-3 in its bibliography and cites 
> it as the source of two definitions (for identifier and registry). 
> Registration in 19135 appears to have departed from 11179-3 in two 
> main ways:
>
> 1) A distinction is made between a Register Owner and a Register 
> Manager, whereas 11179-3 only defines a Registration Authority. Is 
> this distinction relevant to 11179-3?
>
> 2) 19135 formalizes a notion of a hierarchical register. Is this 
> important to also formalize in 11179-3?
>
>     * 8.1.2.1: Concept System section is difficult to understand.
>       Suggest clarifying text and adding examples
>
> Examples are provided in Annex F. I will propose a comment to insert a 
> forward reference from clause 8 to that annex, directing readers to 
> look there for examples.
>
> For clarifying text, more specific comments are requested about what 
> requires clarification.
>
>     * 8.2.2 Classes in the Classification region:Good alignment in
>       Classification region
>
> No comment called for on ballot.
>
>     * RegRep and 11179 have a very different model for handling
>       language specific content. Perhaps this is an area where we can
>       collaborate to achieve better alignment
>
> I think that's a great idea, yes. But it sounds like you'd prefer to 
> put this down as a future task, not a change to be made to 11179-3 at 
> this time, so there is no comment being called for here on the CD2 ballot.
>
>     * Does the spec have something analogous to ebXML RegRep
>       RegistryPackage? If not, consider adding it as we have found it
>       very useful.
>
> It currently does not, but provision of some type of grouping 
> mechanism has been suggested before, by experts in the US TAG. I think 
> what has been lacking is an articulation of requirements to be met by 
> such a mechanism.
>
>     * We were unable to find a place in the spec where Association
>       support and Association metamodel was described. Consider
>       defining a clearer Association metamodel
>
> In some ways the Relation and Link parts of the Concept System 
> metamodel could be considered a specialization of Association as 
> defined in Reg/Rep, scoped to apply only to Concepts (of which many, 
> but not all, of the Data Description classes are subtypes). One 
> difference, however, is that Links in 11179-3 may be of higher arity 
> than 2. Another is that Links do not have one of their ends as the 
> "source"—the "source" of a Link is a concept system(s), rather than 
> one of the ends of the Link.
>
> Another element in the 11179-3 metamodel that highly resembles Reg/Rep 
> Associations is concept system reference (clause 8.1.3.3), which is 
> binary, is directional, and is required to be (sub)typed (it is marked 
> as abstract). An implementer of 11179-3 who wished to do so on top of 
> an implementation of Reg/Rep would be smart to implement concept 
> system reference as a subclass (either explicitly or implicitly) of 
> Association.
>
> Introduction of the very abstract Association facility from Reg/Rep 
> into 11179-3, though, would I think be strongly resisted by the 11179 
> community at large, because it would be unclear what unmet need such a 
> generic facility would serve, and would raise legitimate concerns 
> about how such things could be interpreted consistently when 
> encountered in a metadata registry.
>
>     * We were unable to find a concept equivalent to Repository or
>       RepositoryItem as defined in RegRep. Is this intentionally out
>       of scope? If so, please clarify in 1. Scope section.
>
> I think the closest thing in 11179-3 currently is Reference_Document. 
> 11179-3 does not specify whether the document itself should or should 
> not be stored within the registry, but CD2 does provide an uri 
> attribute by which the document might be accessed, wherever it is stored.
>
> I am happy to propose a comment to state this explicitly in the scope 
> section.
>
>     * Examine spec for forward references and minimize whenever
>       possible. An example is that of Designatable_Item
>
> I don't think I would describe this problem as one of forward 
> references, but I hear again frustration about the description of 
> Designatable_Item. This should be captured in a comment, even if we 
> have no specific recommendation to offer as a proposed solution.
>
> [end of technical comments]
>
> General Questions:
>
>     * Is there a comments list where we can send any future comments?
>     * What public mailing lists can one signup to to stay informed of
>       progress of the spec?
>     * Would it be possible for us to get feedback on RegRep 4
>       specifications from ISO 11179 spec team?
>     * Would it make sense to have a formal liaison between our two
>       groups? RegRep TC feels that would be good. As a first exercise
>       the liaison could define a cross-walk / mapping between the
>       concepts of the two specs
>     * Consider adding a reference to OASIS ebXML RegRep 3.0
>       specifications in Bibliography section
>
> Thanks again to for soliciting our inputs on this good work. We look 
> forward to seeing the next version of the spec and to continued 
> collaboration between our respective teams to achieve closer alignment 
> in our specs.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kathryn
>
> *Kathryn Breininger*
> Manager, Release & Delivery Services
> CIMS - Center for Information Management Services
>
> MC 62-LC
> 425-965-0242 desk
> 425-512-4281 cell
> 425-237-4582 fax
>
> *From:* Bargmeyer [mailto:bebargmeyer@lbl.gov]
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:25 PM
>
> *To:* Breininger, Kathryn R
>
> *Subject:* RE: FW: [regrep] FW: Comments solicited -- ISO/IEC CD2 
> 11179-3 andISO/IEC 19763 Part 3
>
> Katharine,
>
> Thanks for your work on making comments. April 30 will be fine. If you 
> have some comments earlier, that would also help. It would give some 
> time for getting them ready for discussion.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bruce
>
> ----Sent by--------------------------
>
> Bruce Bargmeyer
>
> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>
> University of California
>
> 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 50B-2231A
>
> Berkeley, California 94720
>
> Tel: +1 510-495-2905
>
> Fax: +1 510-486-4004
>
> email: bebargmeyer@lbl.gov <mailto:bebargmeyer@lbl.gov>
>
> *From:* Breininger, Kathryn R [mailto:kathryn.r.breininger@boeing.com]
>
> *Sent:* Monday, April 20, 2009 8:47 AM
>
> *To:* BEBargmeyer@lbl.gov <mailto:BEBargmeyer@lbl.gov>
>
> *Cc:* Farrukh Najmi
>
> *Subject:* RE: FW: [regrep] FW: Comments solicited -- ISO/IEC CD2 
> 11179-3 andISO/IEC 19763 Part 3
>
> *Importance:* High
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Please hold off on redistributing the draft comments. We are worked on 
> these during our meeting, and have modified some. We will send you a 
> complete set of comments that have been blessed by the whole group no 
> later than April 30th, earlier if possible. Will that still fit within 
> your time frame?
>
> *Kathryn Breininger*
> Manager, Release & Delivery Services
> CIMS - Center for Information Management Services
>
> MC 62-LC
> 425-965-0242 desk
> 425-512-4281 cell
> 425-237-4582 fax
>
> *From:* Bargmeyer [mailto:bebargmeyer@lbl.gov]
>
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:32 AM
>
> *To:* Breininger, Kathryn R; 'Farrukh Najmi'
>
> *Subject:* RE: FW: [regrep] FW: Comments solicited -- ISO/IEC CD2 
> 11179-3 andISO/IEC 19763 Part 3
>
> Kathryn and Farrukh,
>
> I very much appreciate the comments you put together. I would like to 
> distribute them to SC 32/WG 2. Can I do so? I’d like to post the 
> comments so that people can see and comment on them.
>
> Do the comments have the blessing of the whole group?
>
> There is a discussion place for the SC 32/WG 2 standards that are 
> under development. It is: issue.metadata-standards.org. Anyone can 
> read the issues. You have to sign up to be able to post comments, but 
> registration is open to all.
>
> If you set the search there to 11179-3 ED3, you will get all of the 
> issues and comments that are posted there. It is OK for issue 
> management, but not so good for getting a comprehensive picture. Issue 
> 422 – 450 are issues inviting comment on the current draft by clause. 
> However, the prior issues cover individual items in more detail.
>
> If you want, I can ask to have you subscribed to receive a message 
> when something is posted there. The messages give a bit of 
> information, but have a link to the comment. It goes in bursts, lots 
> of messages sometimes, then lulls.
>
> There is also an email reflector, 'incits-l8-interest@incits-l8.org 
> <mailto:incits-l8-interest@incits-l8.org>'. If you like, I will 
> request anyone (in the US) to be put on that. Quite a lot of messages 
> on that one, some of which are relevant to 11179. There is an 
> international counterpart: sc32wg2-interest@metadata-standards.org 
> <mailto:sc32wg2-interest@metadata-standards.org>, which does not get a 
> lot of traffic. Let me know if you or others want to subscribe to these.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bruce
>
> ----Sent by--------------------------
>
> Bruce Bargmeyer
>
> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>
> University of California
>
> 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 50B-2231A
>
> Berkeley, California 94720
>
> Tel: +1 510-495-2905
>
> Fax: +1 510-486-4004
>
> email: bebargmeyer@lbl.gov <mailto:bebargmeyer@lbl.gov>
>
> *From:* Breininger, Kathryn R [mailto:kathryn.r.breininger@boeing.com]
>
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:43 AM
>
> *To:* Farrukh Najmi; ebXML Regrep
>
> *Subject:* RE: FW: [regrep] FW: Comments solicited -- ISO/IEC CD2 
> 11179-3 andISO/IEC 19763 Part 3
>
> *Importance:* High
>
> Thank you Farrukh for your thoughtful review. We will discuss during 
> our meeting today, edit if needed, and if all agree will send comments 
> to Bruce.
>
> *Kathryn Breininger*
> Manager, Release & Delivery Services
> CIMS - Center for Information Management Services
>
> MC 62-LC
> 425-965-0242 desk
> 425-512-4281 cell
> 425-237-4582 fax
>
> *From:* Farrukh Najmi [mailto:farrukh@wellfleetsoftware.com]
>
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:56 AM
>
> *To:* ebXML Regrep
>
> *Subject:* Re: FW: [regrep] FW: Comments solicited -- ISO/IEC CD2 
> 11179-3 andISO/IEC 19763 Part 3
>
> Team here are my revised comments on this spec...
>
> Overall, it is a very well put together spec. The way to think of ISO
>
> 11179 is that it describes a registry/repository in even more abstract
>
> terms than ebXML RegRep. In the ideal world ebXML RegRep standard simply
>
> provides a concrete binding for ISO 11179.
>
> However, in the real world the specs have been done by different people
>
> with limited alignment. Historically, we have taken 11179 specs as input
>
> and tried to align with them as best as possible. Complicating things
>
> are other competing specs like ISO 19135 for Registration Procedures.
>
> I think is is a very commendable thing that the 11179 fold and
>
> specifically Bruce Bargmeyer have taken the time to get our input. We
>
> should ask for their input in our latest specs as well. The comments
>
> below are based on a very quick review.
>
>     * 5.1.3 Contact, 5.1.5 Individual: Person <=> Contact model
>       mistmatches
>           o Suggest aligning with regrep with a common Party class
>             that Organization and Person extend
>           o Add address, phone etc. to Party
>           o Take away title from Person and instead make it an
>             attribute of association with an organization (titles or
>             roles are in the context of a relationship with some
>             organization)
>     * 5.1.14 Registration_Authority_Identifier: Why have separate
>       attribute for registration_authority_identifier. Better to
>       representregistration_authority via an Organization and use orgs
>       identifier
>     * 6.1.2.2 Scoped_Identifier: Suggest defining a URN naming scheme
>       instead of current spec
>     * 6.1.2.4 Slot: Thanks for the good alignment here
>     * 6.2 Designation and Definition region: This clause is very
>       difficult to follow. Its not clear what a Designatable_Item is.
>       Suggets providing examples and clearer definition
>     * 7.1 Registration metamodel region: This section should be
>       aligned with ISO 19135
>     * 7.1.2 Registration Record, Stewardship Record,
>       Submission_Record: RegRep TC needs to see if these are relevant
>       to our Registration Procedures work
>     * 7.1.6.1 attachment: This is so much better a name than
>       RepositoryItem (sigh: why did we not think of it)
>     * 8.1 8.1 Concept System region: ClassificationScheme <=>
>       Concept_System, ClassificationNode <=> Concept is another
>       terminology mis-alignment. Perhaps that is OK since 11179 is
>       meant to be more generic than ebXML RegRep
>     * 8.1.2.3 Assertion: Need more examples or clearer description of
>       how Assertions play a role in a concept system
>     * 8.1.2.4.1 Description of Relation: Need more examples or clearer
>       description of how Relations play a role in a concept system
>     * 8.2.2 Classes in the Classification region:Good alignment in
>       Classification region
>     * 9 Binary_Relations Package: This fuctionality needs to be
>       studied for relevance in ebXML RegRep
>     * 10 Data Description Package: This fuctionality needs to be
>       included in a future version of ebXML RegRep
>     * 10.4 Measurement region: This fuctionality needs to be included
>       in a future version of ebXML RegRep
>     * Does the spec have something analogous to ebXML RegRep
>       RegistryPackage? If not consider adding it
>     * There does not seem to be anything analogous to RegRep
>       InternationalString/LocalizedString or how to do
>       internationalization of content. For an international standard
>       this is important to include. Consider aligning with RegRep
>     * I was unable to find a place in the spec where Association
>       support and Association metamodel was described. Did anyone else
>       find it?
>     * Is there a comments list where we can send any future comments?
>     * What public mailing lists can one signup to to stay informed of
>       progress of the spec?
>
> Thanks again to Bruce and 11179 team for soliciting our inputs.
>
> Lets discuss these comments later today in our meeting.
>
> -- 
>
> Regards,
>
> Farrukh
>
> Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com <http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com/>
>
> Breininger, Kathryn R wrote:
>
> Please note: this is one agenda item I want to be sure we have time to 
> discuss, so will be placing it at the top of our agenda. Please review 
> materials (see below) prior t o our meeting.
>
> -- 
>
> Regards,
>
> Farrukh
>
> Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com <http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com/>
>
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