[roe] OAG comment: City and Country structures

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>]

To facilitate debate and consensus on the reviewed items, I am posting 
relevant issues as discussion points.  The intention is that after a one 
week period the team shall resolve these issues.  For example, this 
issue will be resolved at the call on Friday July 11th.

Item 7.

OAG have defined CitySubEntity and CountrySubEntity with a type 
attribute to qualify the value with some appropriate label (e.g. 
type=state, type=district).  Multiple occurrences were allowed for each 
of these data elements to provide maximum flexibility.  The names 
CitySubEntity and CountrySubEntity also implied whether these 
subentities were subsets of a city or country.  This is similar to the 
AdministractiveArea approach of the OASIS CIQ group.

This appears to impact on NDR rules that attributes are now defining the 
context.  Do we see merit in this approach?

-- 
regards
tim mcgrath
phone: +618 93352228  
postal: po box 1289   fremantle    western australia 6160