RE: Changes to xNL and xCIL

[Ram Kumar <rkumar@msi.com.au>]

Dave

After a long thought, I have decided that we better stick to
customer as only: A person or an organisation. Therefore, I 
have decided to revert back to the original spec. that does not
include other living species. As you rightly said, this definitely saves
us from more troubles that we could face from other communities who
deal with "other living species"!

Ram

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David RR Webber - XMLGlobal [mailto:Gnosis_@compuserve.com]
> Sent: Friday, 5 October 2001 11:59 PM
> To: Ram Kumar
> Cc: CIQ TC (E-mail)
> Subject: re: Changes to xNL and xCIL
> 
> 
> Message text written by Ram Kumar
> >A customer is a customer whether it is a dog or human or a 
> company. We
> have
> to cater for all types
> of customer name and address data if we claim that xNAL and 
> xCIL represents
> global customer data.
> I therefore, spent about 10 minutes to fix the xNAL and xCIL 
> to cater for
> this data set.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Ram<
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> Ram,
> 
> This is a little off the path.  I think just adding one attribute is a
> cheap fix,
> no problem with that.
> 
> However some years back I was involved in a Genome Primate 
> database project for Duke University.
> 
> My 2cents is there is a shed load of other stuff - like species info' 
> and who sired who, that people in this area ALSO want to store.
> 
> I think we should not go down that slippery slope.  People wanting
> to extend our <name> <address> stuff should <include> <species>
> and <hereditary> pieces from elsewhere.
> 
> DW.