[topicmapmail] SIDPs and Identification Process [Was : Identities and names ... ]

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Bernard Vatant
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| Note that XTM distinction between <subjectIndicatorRef> and
| <baseName> [...] look now quite short-sighted in this perspective.

Are you sure you mean this? The semantics of the two are after all
different, as are the merging behaviours. I'd be interested to hear
how you would prefer to handle this.

| - A subject is assigned characteristics or properties - including
| names - through assertions.
| - An identifying property (SIDP) is an assertion about a subject
| that, in a given context, following a given protocol, makes for
| subject identification (that is, ability to declare that two
| subjects are identical or not). SIDPs can be assignment of names, or
| other assertions.
| - A semantic application or language has to clearly declare what are
| the properties it uses as SIDPs.
| - Semantic applications or languages are interoperable if they are
| able to match their respective identifying properties, so that two
| subjects identical for one of them are also considered identical by
| the other(s).

I think we all agree on this conceptually, although we use different
terminology to say it. The question is: now that we've agreed on this,
what should we do. I'd be especially interested to hear what you
think, Bernard. It's all very well to put forward an analysis, but the
real question is what to do in practice.

Do we want to change any part of the current standards proposals, or
do we not? Does this relate to them at all?

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