External Classification Scheme -- Meeting Report

External Classification Team,

Our September 13 teleconference was attended by three people:

   Len Gallagher
   Nikola Stojanovic
   Farrukh Najmi

We discussed the differing proposals by Len and Farrukh to treat 
ExternalClassification as a subclass of Classification, or implicitly, to 
treat Classification as a superclass of both InternalClassification and 
ExternalClassification. The team is very close to agreement on RIM changes 
needed to accommodate a common interpretation of both types of classifications.

There are still some differences on whether Classification instances must 
be supported in Registry Services for all RegistryObject subclasses, or 
just some subset of them, in particular RegistryEntry and possibly 
Organization.

It would be helpful if other team members commented on the proposals.

-- Len


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