--On 1/3/00 2:13 PM +0100 Thomas Baker wrote:
> -- We can vote on the 'semantics' of the Agent WG proposal -- even
> Affiliation, Agent Type, etc -- as long as we stop calling them
> qualifiers of CCP elements of the DCMES and recast some of them
> (Affiliation, Type, etc) as a ballot for top-level elements of a
> minimal, first-step Agent Core (or Authority Core).
This is a mistake to do this now. We are not in a position to
even start developing a new element set.
There is *nothing wrong* with Version 1.* of DCMES/DCQ consisting
of a small set of qualifiers for identifying the CCP.
It is a simple, small set of qualifiers.
When we start to architect Version 2.* of DCMES, then we can develop
a richer, cleaner way to handle the Agent. We all know how to do
it now, but it is too late to force this change back on Version 1.*.
Lets just vote on these as qualifiers and move onto building a *better*
element set...
Cheers...Renato <http://purl.net/net/renato>
Principal Research Scientist, DSTC <http://www.dstc.edu.au>
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