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Subject: RE: [tm-pubsubj-comment] Baltimore minutes
The "second bullet" has been modified. Hope everybody is happy with it now. Bernard ============================================ Bernard Vatant Knowledge Engineering Mondeca - www.mondeca.com OASIS Published Subjects Technical Committee www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj ============================================ |-----Original Message----- |From: Steve Pepper [mailto:pepper@ontopia.net] |Sent: mercredi 1 janvier 2003 20:09 |To: tm-pubsubj-comment | |At 04:43 30.12.2002 +0100, Lars Marius Garshol wrote: |>Given the choice between stability and memorability I believe we |>should choose stability every single time. In fact, the two are |>fundamentally opposed, because having identifiers that are meaningful |>to humans means there will be reasons to change those identifiers |>based on what they mean to humans. (The ROM -> ROU change in ISO 3166 |>is an excellent example of this.) If the identifiers are meaningless, |>on the other hand, this is not a problem. | |I agree, and this was also the point made at the meeting. We lean |towards human memorability where possible, but not to the detriment |of stability. Bernard, can you modify the second bullet under 5. |accordingly? | |Steve | |-- |Steve Pepper, Chief Executive Officer <pepper@ontopia.net> |Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3 Editor, XTM (XML Topic Maps) |Ontopia AS, Waldemar Thranes gt. 98, N-0175 Oslo, Norway. |http://www.ontopia.net/ phone: +47-23233080 GSM: +47-90827246 | | |---------------------------------------------------------------- |To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription |manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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