Legal Domain Ontology

From the discussion today it sounds like part of LegalRuleML will be an
ontology of concepts in the legal domain.

Somethings I would like to see clarified are:

1. to what extent will this ontology be taken from existing ontologies,
including upper ontologies, such as DOLCE [1], or legal domain
ontologies such as lkif [2], and to what extent will it be new;

2. is it desirable that the parts of the syntax that are dependent on
the ontology be separable (through modularization) from the parts that
are independent.

I would argue that in #1 as much as possible be used from existing
ontologies provided these ontologies have a broad acceptance, and for
#2 as much separation as possible, so that if/when the ontology evolves
or is replaced, it has minimal effects on the syntax that is
independent of the legal domain.

[1] www.loa.istc.cnr.it/DOLCE.html

[2] https://github.com/RinkeHoekstra/lkif-core