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+ 1 I agree with the wording, but think this is something that might benefit from (lightweight) formalization sooner rather than later. In fact, I think we are beginning to get to that stage with many of the concepts. --James On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:22 AM, 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 > -- > Professor Luc Moreau > Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487 > University of Southampton fax: +44 23 8059 2865 > Southampton SO17 1BJ email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk > United Kingdom http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.Received on Monday, 6 June 2011 18:12:12 GMT
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