Property Term Possessives?

[kenneth.sall@gsa.gov]

[Sorry for all of these Q's but trying to get clarification about aspects
that are unclear to us.]

We noticed that a "Property Term Possessives" column appears in the UBL
1.0B spreadsheets, but not in CCTS v2.01 or UBL documentation.
A comment in the column heading of the spreadsheet provides this
definition:

Column heading: Property Term Possessive(s) [but comment says: Property
Term Adjective(s)]

"The use of this metadata is specified by the ebXML CCTS which in turn
extends the ISO 11179 naming rules. Property Term represents the
distinguishing characteristic or Property of the Object Class and shall
occur naturally in the definition. Also known as an attribute (to
database designers). The combination of Object Class and its Property
Term, should give the basic semantic meaning of the item. The Property
Term may consist of one or more possessive nouns preceeding the
mandatory noun. This ownership creates a meaninginful refinement of the
noun to make a meaningful and recognisable business name."

Questions:
1) Are "Property Term Possessives" formally part of any spec at this point?
Will the term appear in the formal documentation?
2) Between using a Property Qualifer Term and a Property Term Possessive,
what difference is there in the resultant UBL name? In other words, how
does the Possessive impact the result differently from a Qualifer?
3) In this frag from UBL-Reusable*.xls, how are "Postal Zone" and "City
Name" different with regard to Property Term? That is, why does the former
have a  Property Qualifer Term and the latter a Property Term Possessive?

Object  Property         Property Term   Property Term  Representation
 Class   Qualifier        Possessive(s)    Noun            Term

Address                   City             Name           Name
Address   Postal                           Zone           Text

Thank you.

Kenneth Sall
XML Specialist
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