Issue 8305: Section: 13.3.9 (uml2-rtf) Source: (, ) Nature: Clarification Severity: Minor Summary: Reword the last sentence under sub-section Semantics. Assuming is not good. State clearly that the ending point in time and the starting point in time would swap. Change "assuming" to "because." Under sub-section Notation, change "Often a Duration is a non-negative integer expression..." to "Often a Duration is an UnlimitedNatural number..." Use of the word "often" implies that the notation could be expresses as a negative integer which, for Duration is an impossibility (at least in our universe Resolution: Revised Text: Delete the second paragraph in the Semantics sub-section. Actions taken: February 22, 2005: received issue August 23, 2006: closed issue Discussion: End of Annotations:===== m: webmaster@omg.org Date: 22 Feb 2005 12:21:28 -0500 To: Subject: Issue/Bug Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Jane Messenger Company: U. S. Geological Survey mailFrom: jmessenger@usgs.gov Notification: Yes Specification: Superstructure Section: 13.3.9 FormalNumber: ptc/04-10-02 Version: 2.0 Draft Adopted RevisionDate: 10/08/2004 Page: 475 Nature: Clarification Severity: Minor HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description Reword the last sentence under sub-section Semantics. Assuming is not good. State clearly that the ending point in time and the starting point in time would swap. Change "assuming" to "because." Under sub-section Notation, change "Often a Duration is a non-negative integer expression..." to "Often a Duration is an UnlimitedNatural number..." Use of the word "often" implies that the notation could be expresses as a negative integer which, for Duration is an impossibility (at least in our universe). Issue 8305: Section: 13.3.9 Issue summary Reword the last sentence under sub-section Semantics. Assuming is not good. State clearly that the ending point in time and the starting point in time would swap. Change 'assuming' to 'because.' Under sub-section Notation, change 'Often a Duration is a non-negative integer expression...' to 'Often a Duration is an Unlimited Natural? number...' Use of the word 'often' implies that the notation could be expresses as a negative integer which, for Duration is an impossibility (at least in our universe Discussion Revised Test Delete the second paragraph in the Semantics sub-section. Resolution