Current Slot Issues

Team,

The following is a summary of our current Slot issues - please provide
feedback. For now, I've sent this just to our CC Review listserv - if
anyone thinks it should be sent to the full TC, please let me know.

Thanks,
Joe

(1) Maximum length - a restrictive feature

Slot attribute "values" is of Data Type "Collection of LongName" (128
characters)

QUESTION: Should the length be increased to (for example) 256
characters? This may be non-issue if slot values are ordered (see
below), as they can be "chained together".

(2) Order of Slot values

Slot attribute "values" should be changed from Data Type "Collection of
LongName" to Data Type "Ordered Collection of LongName".

(3) Cardinality of slots - (ex: 1-to-many values)

We can add attributes to Slot class to for "minOccurs" and "maxOccurs".
Each would signify the minimum/maximum number of members of the "values"
collection that can exist. For example, a "minOccurs" value of 0 and a
"maxOccurs" value of 10 would mean that there can be a minimum of 0
values and a maximum of 10 values in the "values" collection.

(4) slotType attribute - does not have predetermined values

"slotType" attribute should have predetermined values.

QUESTION: What are some suggested predetermined values?