RE: Comments to Version 0.8-Reqts Specs

[Jean.Kubler@unece.org]

Hello,

On the comments, add to your list the below:

ISO 3166 is internationally used, including by IANA and  now ICANN for the
ccTLDs (ISO 3166
county codes Top level domain).

I would resume your list by just stating that this would mean that we all speak
the same language in all languages, tout un proramme. Regards, Jean

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UN/ECE  Jean E. KUBLER  
        Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business
        Tel: +41 22 9172774 http://www.unece.org/cefact
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Subject:    SV: RE: Comments to Version 0.8-Reqts Specs
Author: "Greg FitzPatrick" <gf@medianet.org>
Date:       4/27/00 5:24 PM

Isn't the issue laid out here more like this?:

a) there will in most cases be more than one schema for names (rigid
designators).

b) extensible applications must be able to resolve this situation by the
utilization of multiple namespaces. viz. application A reaches concurrence
to application B through common reference to online schemas C,D,E...

c) naming conventions (schemas) will not always align.

d) lack of alignment might be due to: (non-exhaustive) timeliness, culture,
language, politics and error.

e) statistical applications demand correct alignment - perhaps more so than
others, since statistics is an aggregation of multiple transactions which
will not always refer to common schemas.

f) in a true "naming market" certain schemas will win a larger market-share
through user preference.  In some cases this might result in naming
monopolies.

g) statistical applications must developed mechanisms to resolve
non-aligning schemas.

h) how nice if everyone just used ISO 3166, but...

Greg

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