Re: Ownership of Names (was Re: Public identifiers and topic maps)

Michel Biezunski (Michel.Biezunski@wanadoo.fr)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:16:43 +0200


[Eliot:]

>As an aside, I note that much of this discussion revolves around issues of
>the definitions of key terms in the discussion, which is, of course, one of
>the purposes of topic navigation maps: to define things.

Topic Navigation Maps do ***_NOT_**** define things. They (only!) offer a means
of interchanging whatever somebody says about something, including definitions,
if any. They can be used even when no definitions are involved.

Michel.