RE: grove plans (off-topic; was: Re: [xtm-wg] Does processing a T M yield one graph, or several?)

[Peter Jones <peterj@wrox.com>]

sorry, let me try that again
in this case the reason that springs to mind is: so that I can unambiguously
pack more than one serialization of a topic map from a particular **legal**
namespace
into a single interchange doc should I so wish to do. and I think I will
want to...

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Jones [mailto:peterj@wrox.com]
Sent: 09 November 2000 15:00
To: 'xtm-wg@egroups.com'
Subject: RE: grove plans (off-topic; was: Re: [xtm-wg] Does processing a
T M yield one graph, or several?)


in this case the reason that springs to mind is: so that I can unambiguously
pack more than one serialization of a topic map from a particular namespace
into a single interchange doc should I so wish to do. and I think I will
want to...

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Hunting [mailto:sam_hunting@yahoo.com]
Sent: 09 November 2000 14:51
To: xtm-wg@egroups.com
Subject: Re: grove plans (off-topic; was: Re: [xtm-wg] Does processing a
TM yield one graph, or several?)


> > [Steve Newcomb:]
> > To my way of thinking, however, the advantages of
> > having the <xtm> container element far outweigh the disadvantage
> > (which seems to me to amount, in toto, to a really insignificant
> > amount of extra complexity).

[peter jones]

> i am going to be really explicit here. as i see it, topic maps (and 
> the data structures and information that they contain) will be seen 
> as intellectual property. if your TM server can't distinguish between
> the IP of different TM providers before, during, and after 
> processing, in interchange format or processed graph or whatever...

I'm not sure why the <xtm> wrapper is needed to perform this function.

I had the vague idea that URNs on PSIs would enable the assertion of
ownership, but perhaps that's wrong? Technically? Politically?
S.

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