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If it follows the normal human pattern, it becomes a reference group
vocabulary and exhibits some drift over time. In heavy use,
it is barely stable but that is ok and precisely why one
wants it to stay out of the transport. One may not want to
standardize these as much as be able to capture them and keep
them organized for some period. Standardization is a brittle
notion when applied to living languages. The interesting stuff
is the overlaps of the reference group vocabularies because
a pattern of cross-group transactions emerges and is worth
knowing about. Some aspects of drift are driven by the
overlaps making a thesaurus a maintenance bear. It will
be interesting to see how much work is involved in maintaining
a topic map system.
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill de hOra [mailto:dehora@eircom.net]
I think standardizing on message semantics will takes years and years.
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