11-17-2010 Section 3 Issues and Suggested Edits

[Rex Brooks <rex.brooks@ncoic.org>]

Hi Everyone,

While I wasn't able to go through all of Ken's terms to check for 
consistency, and discovered my own unincluded requested edits, I have 
put together my best shot at checking consistency and offering suggested 
edits instead of simply saying that something needed to be corrected, 
changed, deleted, etc.

I found things I thought we had already reached consensus on changing or 
deleting but since I do support the effort to wind this up, I'll have to 
live with the things I haven't had the time to double check.

Therefore, I only included the things I was able to check and think 
through and test. I asked some questions of other colleagues to make 
sure I wasn't making unfounded allegations about the extent to which our 
audience is at least aware of some terms and concepts. My main 
difficulty is that there are concepts from the overlapping areas of 
philosophy and linguistics, namely Speech Act Theory, which our audience 
will not be familiar with and which are likely to adversely affect the 
uptake of our work. While some parts of our audience, specifically the 
DODaF Metamodel effort, where there is some active study and willingness 
to take on the difficult task of establishing an ontological 
representation of the models they are developing and refining, they too 
are a long way from being aware of and willing to take on the more 
difficult and arguably less applicable material in our document.

Cheers,
Rex

11-17-2010-Sec3Issues-SuggestedEdits-RB.doc