Scope?

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

Just checking my understanding of "scope" as used in the Beehive model.

The text says:

"A scope defines a logical region or neighborhood in the universe of 
entities that is governed by a common set of policies, which includes 
memberships, roles, and groups. Enterprises, organizations, and 
workspaces define the boundaries of hierarchies of scopes."

OK, but I got the impression from the presentation today and to some 
degree confirmed by the text that "enterprises, organizations, and 
workspaces" define scopes. Yes?

The reason I ask is that when I think about "scope" as we use the terms 
in topic maps (not arguing for that definition here) I think of it as a 
characteristic that is possessed by an entity, not that it defines.

Such that any number of entity could, at least in theory, share the same 
scope.

I suppose it could be thought of as "re-use" of scope by more than one 
top level entity. Moreover, I suspect that it may be useful for entities 
under a top level entity to not only inherit a "scope" but also be able 
to be assigned one or more other scopes.

That implies to me that scope should be defined separate and apart from 
any top level entity and applicable separate from that entity.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)