Re: PROV-ISSUE-1: a proposal to vote on

+1

Luc Moreau wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> You will recall we failed to reach consensus on the following proposal 
> at the last teleconference:
>  "in a first instance, to define the necessary concepts that allow us to 
> express the provenance
> of a thing that does not change".  Kai, Jim and Satya then expressed 
> concerns, which can be
> summarized as, this proposal provides no route to handle mutable things.
> 
> After a long email discussion with them over the WE, we have converged 
> towards a better
> proposal:
> 
> /In a first instance, to define the necessary concepts that allow us to 
> express the provenance of
> an invariant view or perspective on a thing./
> 
> What is important to note is that it is the view/perspective that does 
> not change, the thing
> itself can be mutable.
> 
> To allow us to progress, can you express by +1/-1/0 your support for 
> this proposal?
> 
> Best regards,
> Luc
> 
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Received on Monday, 6 June 2011 14:37:53 UTC