Re: [OEP] Draft of a note on n-ary relations

Fabien, All

We clearly need to get the policy on this straight.  

Natasha has said it better than I can.


Regards

Alan


Fabien Gandon wrote:

> Alan Rector a écrit :
> > I think this approach has a serious problem in that
> > it assumes that there an only be one temperature (...)
>
> Alan,
>
> I completely agree with your remark and my message was confusing.
>
> In fact, the purpose of this message [2] was not to defend a particular
> approach (most of the time I use the option of reifying the instances of
> the n-ary relation).
> My point really was that, IMO, a maximum of different possible options
> should be listed in the design pattern with their pros and cons like I
> tried to propose in a previous message [1].
>
> What I was trying to avoid is to have a reader thinking we did not see
> an alternative approach while it was in fact implicitly discarded
> because of reasons that seemed obvious to us.
> I think all the options we can think of should be listed and discussed,
> even briefly, to provide the design rationale that really makes the
> design pattern reusable.
>
> But then again, may be I completely missed the point of this note,
>
> Fabien
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2004May/0128.html
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2004Jun/0054.html
>
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