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Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Architectural Scope of Reference Model


There is of course, in human affairs, the issue of intent. If you 
accidentally-on-purpose destroyed the only extant copy of a contract, 
then it would require adjudication which you might win!
Frank

On Apr 20, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Duane Nickull wrote:

> Frank:
>
> Thank you for this analogy (ink over the representation).  I think 
> this is a valuable analogy for understanding abstract elements and 
> their relationships to concrete implementations.
>
> Duane
>
> Francis McCabe wrote:
>
>> Think of human contracts: if you sign a contract, and then 
>> accidentally pour some ink over the paper that you signed; you still 
>> have a contract. All that the ink did was destroy the representation 
>> of the contract.
>>
>> This is what I meant earlier about UML -- it strongly encourages 
>> people to think in terms of specialization. But that is not the only 
>> relationship of interest.
>>
>> Frank
>
>
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