Re: [xtm-wg] A challenge on "the graph"

[Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com>]

Sam Hunting wrote:
> 
> [james mason]
> > lots of folks aren't talking TO each other, they're talking PAST each
> > other
> 
> I'm a little more relaxed about this. This thread exploded in the last
> few days -- earlier participants were indeed talking TO each other,
> later participants have not yet found their feet, and are in fact still
> exposing their first ideas, which is almost "PAST" by definition. This
> is normal.
> 
> I think at some point soon we (I?) need to circle back and focus again
> on requirements, just to make sure there is some common thread to all
> the good ideas. I wonder if the "layering" ideas could be put in that
> context, the context of requirements? Hmmm...

It's also to the point that we need talking points. Nobody coming into
this discussion could at this point understand "where we're at." A document
needs to be posted that can be used as a requirements document. 

  1. Requirements for an XTM Data Model
  2. Requirements for an XTM Processing Model
  3. Possible Data Model Approaches
  4. Possible Processing Model Approaches
  etc.

Murray

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