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        Please review these minutes from the Reference Information Model (RIM) subcommittee meeting of September 22, 2011 for approval at our next meeting, subject to any specified changes. Thanks.
        

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        Document Name: DRAFT-EDXL-RIM-SC-MtgNotes-09-22-2011.doc

        
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        At the September 22nd, 2011 meeting of the Reference Information Model

(RIM) subcommittee, the members discussed the following topics:

1. TOPIC: Should elements such as ?certainty?, ?severity?, ?urgency?,

?confidence?, ?priority? be elements in common types? (Answer: Probably,

because they are important meta-components of any standard and our

definition of them can help guide standardized-usage in current and future

specifications. The RIM perspective is how to make the suggested common

elements as reusable as possible across the standards. The DE 2.0 draft now

includes certainty, severity and urgency. SitRep includes confidence for

reports. But at this point, they are not in the common types. Issues: What

is the threshold for deciding what goes into common types and what level of

scrutiny is required? Should flexibility be provided for localized

definitions of values (with defaults) or require a fixed set of values? )

2. TOPIC: Should we recommend that we follow the OASIS recommendation for

handling checksums to ensure downloaded files are correct? (Answer: Yes.

Martena Gooch recommended that we consider this important issue. Although

various suggestions have been made, it appears there is an OASIS staff

recommendation for how to handle this. We will follow up with an email in

response to Robin Cover and see if we can get a clarification on the OASIS

process for doing the checksum and how soon it will be implemented. Then we

can inform the EM TC membership and suggest that we utilize the process.

Issue: Can the checksum be used for component parts of a zip as well as the

entire zip?)

3.  TOPIC: Should we use a class-based approach to representing EDXL

elements in an ontology-based reference information model? (Answer: Yes,

this provides better support for reasoning.  Rex is proceeding to extend

his ValueList Ontology and we will compare to Jeff's version so that we can

come up with a recommended approach to the ontology modeling.)        

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        Date submitted: 2011-09-22 11:55:05