[topicmapmail] Survey of Actual Scope Use in Topic Maps

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Marc de Graauw
| 
| The CPAN Topic Map contains:
| 
| <baseName id="AALLAN-bn2">
|   <scope>
|   <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc822.txt"
| xlink:type="simple" />
|   </scope>
|   <baseNameString id="AALLAN-bn2-bns">aa@astro.ex.ac.uk</baseNameString>
| </baseName>
| 
| So it uses email-adress as a basename, and says they are unique in
| scope rfc822.

Then I understand! Now, that is quite surprising, I think. To my mind,
an email address is not a name. If it is the name of anything it must
be somebody's mailbox. It's certainly not the name of a person.

I think this is abuse of names, done in order to get a merging
behaviour which is currently not available for occurrences, but is
available for names.

| The description "Email addresses are unique" is not a very good one,
| I agree.

Given the above, perhaps "Unique data values used for TNC merge" or
something like it would work?

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