Re: [dxwg] FPWD comment: use dcat:Distribution for Resource (#529)

I diagree that parts of a `Profile`, currently modelled as artifacts and associated with a `Profile` via a `Resource Descriptor` can be modelled as `dcat:Distribution`s of the `Profile` for the following reasons:

1. such a modelling would indicate that the Profile is a `dcat:Dataset` and a Dataset and a Standard (`dct:Standard`) are not the same thing
2. From DCAT (rev)'s definitions: Distributions are "A specific representation of a dataset", so this is *representation of* not *representation of part of*. With `Resource Descriptor`, we are interested in part of representation for thinkgs such as validation constraints, documentation or a specification document which only together, with all other `Profile parts`, make the whole profile.

For these reasons, I recommend not using `dcat:Distribution` for `prof:ResourceDescriptor`.

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