Thanks
Mike
Option 1) is the one
that I was going to suggest – in the absence of anything else,an organization
identifies itself.
However, I am
just raising the issue to alert implementers.
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From: Mike Ward
[mailto:mike.ward@eurostep.com]
Sent: 05 May 2005 19:36
To: 'Rob Bodington';
plcs-dex@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [plcs-dex] identification of
organition
I don't really see a
problem. The situation is just like that in the real
world.
The threatened
infinite regress can be avoided in a number of
ways:
1) By circular
referencing - the simplest case would, I suppose, be where org A provides the
id for org B and vice versa ......... or (even simpler) where an org provides
its own id.
2) By not assigning
an id to the org at the end of the chain - after all, the id *attribute* of
org was assumed to be *optional* by whoever created the original express
entity.
3) By not assigning
an org to the identification_assignment at the end of the chain - although I
suppose this goes against your statement: "We have also agreed
that an identification_assignment must be assigned in the context of an
organization that owns the identifier."
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From: Rob
Bodington [mailto:rob.bodington@eurostep.com]
Sent: 2005 May 05 17:25
To:
plcs-dex@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [plcs-dex] identification of
organition
Hi
I have started to review some of
the core capabilities and have a question about assigning an
organization.
We have proposed that an
organization is identified by identification assignment – no
problem.
We have also agreed that an
identification_assignment must be assigned in the context of an organization
that owns the identifier.
Fine. But how do identify that
organization? At some point you have to put use the Id attribute on
organization.
An example is shown
below.
Any
suggestions?
Regards
Rob
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