Issue 10560: Vocabulary Adoption vs. Inclusion (sbvr-ftf) Source: Business Rule Solutions, LLC (Mr. Ron Ross, rross(at)brsolutions.com) Nature: Clarification Severity: Significant Summary: Vocabulary Adoption vs. Inclusion The vocabulary of section 12 is directly built on, and depends on, some (but not all of) of the vocabulary of section 10. Questions have arisen in that regard, including (but not limited to) the following: * Is the latter vocabulary being included or adopted into the former? * Is there a difference between “inclusion” and “adoption”, and if so, what is it? * Can you adopt and/or include concepts and/or definitions without terms? * What exactly is included or adopted when “inclusion” and/or “adoption” occurs? * How exactly does SBVR intend “adoption” and/or “inclusion” to work? SBVR needs to be more specific about the notions of “adoption” and/or “inclusion”, since SBVR itself requires these notions, and since leaving the specifics to practice or interpretation is likely to produce divergent and perhaps undesirable results. Resolution: Deferred to second SBVR Revision Task Force because there were more foundational issues that had to be resolved first, and it was very important SBVR v1.1 out as soon as they were done. Disposition: Deferred Revised Text: Actions taken: January 3, 2007: received issue Discussion: End of Annotations:===== m: webmaster@omg.org Date: 03 Jan 2007 14:34:55 -0500 To: Subject: Issue/Bug Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Ron Ross Company: Business Rule Solutions, LLC mailFrom: rross@BRSolutions.com Notification: Yes Specification: SBVR Section: various FormalNumber: dtc/06-08-05 Version: Interim Specification RevisionDate: 08/06/3006 Page: various Nature: Clarification Severity: Significant HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description Vocabulary Adoption vs. Inclusion The vocabulary of section 12 is directly built on, and depends on, some (but not all of) of the vocabulary of section 10. Questions have arisen in that regard, including (but not limited to) the following: * Is the latter vocabulary being included or adopted into the former? * Is there a difference between .inclusion. and .adoption., and if so, what is it? * Can you adopt and/or include concepts and/or definitions without terms? * What exactly is included or adopted when .inclusion. and/or .adoption. occurs? * How exactly does SBVR intend .adoption. and/or .inclusion. to work? SBVR needs to be more specific about the notions of .adoption. and/or .inclusion., since SBVR itself requires these notions, and since leaving the specifics to practice or interpretation is likely to produce divergent and perhaps undesirable results.