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Real world contextualization. You are bidding a contract for a project governed by a set of standards or specifications. An example might be to produce a new system for your government, a large systems integrator, etc. The bidding results in a contract which is the overall governing record of authority for the project scoped by time and other considerations such as payment for performance. The standards or specifications internally cite other documents such as a DTD or schema family for the documents and other data items to be delivered at specified intervals of project time (eg, by phase) or clock/calendar time (by date). Note that these time types scale. During the negotiation, the contract procurement officer and your contract officer agree to waive specific requirements in specific governing documents. They also agree that during the performance of the project, authorities representing all parties meet at scheduled times (either project time or clock/calendar time) to review the project deliverables and if necessary, to renegotiate the conditions of the governing documents and make agreed upon adjustments. That is real world contextualization for which you will receive real world money. The description above is slightly simplified because the collection of information exchanged during each negotiation must be accounted for (traceability). Part of the solution is how you distribute RDDL since it is essentially a Contract Data Requirements List or CDRL. CDRLs cite DID (Data Item Descriptions). Your challenge is to use URIs to represent all of the above and not open your company up to litigation based on charges of fraud, misconduct, failure to deliver, and so forth. Further, you should be able to prove by URI that your company has bettered the performance contracted to receive incentive payments. In some cases, you must be able to drop deliverables if they have been traded for new requirements discovered during the course of the performance. Real world: contextualization by control and feedback. So called "hotspots" in the system are a symptom of a problem you can easily solve as long as the name is not the thing. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Michael Mealling [mailto:michael@b...] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:41 PM To: James Robertson Cc: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: How could RDDL be distributed ? On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:23:40PM +1100, James Robertson wrote: > At 15:04 17/01/2001, Michael Mealling wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:19:56PM +1100, James Robertson wrote: > > > At 03:19 17/01/2001, Michael Mealling wrote: > > > > > 1. Allow for local overriding of authoritative resources. > > > > > > > >IMHO that's the c15n problem space... > > > > > > Damn these shortenings of words. They are > > > causing way too much o9n. > > > > > > A few extra letters would kill you? > > > >;-) You type it as much as I have and it will get annoying. Plus its > >what the IETF BOF group was called so its easier to find by using that > >acronym. But the point is valid. I'll try and spell it out > >more often. ;-) > > I think you missed my subtle (?) point: > > WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR ?!? Ah... Sorry. Thought you'd caught the start of the thread... c15n is short for Contextualization. It's a concept whereby a URI is resolved based on some locally defined set of context. In academic research it could be based on research appropriate copies (edition 1 vs edition 2, photograph vs digitization, etc). In the cases we have been talking about here it means taking some URI and resolving it based on your localized concept of what that URI identifies (i.e. you think you have a better XML Schema than the owner of the original, you have some locally cached copy, you don't trust the holder of the URI to not change the bit of XML underneath you, etc).... -MM -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@n...
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