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SUO: RE: Re: Conformance (actually, "standards profiles")




Dear Seth,

See below.


Matthew West
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Russell [mailto:seth@robustai.net]
> Sent: 22 October 2001 23:24
> To: Frank Farance; standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
> Cc: SWAG
> Subject: SUO: Re: Conformance (actually, "standards profiles")
> 
> 
> 
> From: "Frank Farance" <frank@farance.com>
> 
> > Standards profiles are used pretty often when referring to a bundle,
> collection, subset, superset, etc. of standards.
> > Does this approach address your concern?  Is this "posh" 
> enough for you?
> :-)
> 
> Yes I think think standards profiles would work and might be 
> quite eligant.
> Are these profiles chosen by the user, or prescribed by the 
> standards body?
> I prefer the former.   But I really should recuse myself from further
> discussion of standards as I don't even believe in creating a standard
> ontology.  I just want a dictionary in which to look up terms 
> such that
> others will understand what I am trying to say.

MW: But that is what a standard is ... something that is used by a lot 
of people.
> 
> Seth Russell
> 
>