[sc34wg3] Let's revert to N323!

Sam Hunting sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:04:48 -0500 (EST)


[patrick durusau] 
> The RM is designed to define the essence of what it means to be a topic 
> map and provides a heuristic device for evaluating topic map models and 
> topic maps separate and apart from any particular data model or 
> implementation or instance of a topic map. (If anyone disagrees with 
> this assessment, it would be helpful if you could point to the parts of 
> the RM that you read as supporting some contrary view. I am aware that 
> contrary views exist, but they do not appear to be based on reading of 
> the RM but on other grounds. That appearance could be resolved by 
> citations to the RM.)

Comments on the RM can be made easily by the process outlined at
http://www.isotopicmaps.org/tmmm/procedure.html.

Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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