RE: Some points in the spec

Do we need an “Unknown” as part of “effectiveness?” That would mean every enumeration would have six possible values, which would add some symmetry (which always seems right).

One other minor semantic concern: As I think this through, “likelihood” seems like it is has a different connotation than “frequency” so the enumeration terms seem “wrong” somehow. It seems like we could use the same enumeration values as most of the other enumeration types perhaps. (Maybe I’m not thinking about this right though)

From: saf@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:saf@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Isaiadis, Stavros
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:36 AM
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Subject: [saf] Some points in the spec

Hi all,

As we approach a more polished version we would like to vote on, here’s some points to consider:

Enumerations such as Impact, Risk, Likelihood, and Urgency: I propose adding two more levels to make them more granular, and eliminate the name of the enum as a suffix of the values. Specifically:

Likelihood {VeryFrequent, Frequent, Balanced, Infrequent, Rare, NotAvailable}

Impact {VeryHigh, High, Moderate, Low, Minimal, Unknown}

Urgency {VeryHigh, High, Moderate, Low, Minimal, Unknown}

Risk {VeryHigh, High, Moderate, Low, Minimal, Unknown}

Duration{VeryLong, Long, Moderate, Short, VeryShort, Unknown}

Effectiveness {Effective, PartiallyEffective, BestEffort, Ineffective, Inconclusive}

Adding examples of the elements right after the pseudo schemas, and in the end in the appendix pull all the examples together in a scenario-based one, following our medical sequence diagram. This would clarify things a lot probably.
Conformance: I don’t think we have anything special to add here
Non-normative text: we should just remove this section

More may come later. Thoughts?

Thanks,

Stavros

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