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Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Proposed "person" object
From: "Poindexter, Gary W" <>
To: Court Filing List <>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:22:46 -0500
As one
who is working on a non-court filing implementation (i.e. complaints) I find the
court filing concepts of actor and roles far superior to this
proposal.
They
made some name changes for no apparent reason. PersonalID vs.
PersonalIdentification - why? One of the basic concepts of the DD is to not use
abbreviations. Their first change substitutes a definitive tag name with one
that uses an abbreviation.
They
changed PersonalIdentifiers to specific types of personal identifiers. I find
the flexibility of the current model superior to what is
proposed.
They
have created a division through person classes that does not work as well as
Actor and Role. A police officer can be both the "arresting officer" and a
"witness." Their proposal does not appear to permit this without creating two
subclasses. With the current court filing model I can create an Actor and give
them two roles - one as an arresting officer and one as a witness. It appears
that I can create the same structure with the proposed model, but why change the
model unless it has some superior qualities that I am not
seeing.
Their
model is probably workable, but it does not seem to be superior to what we have
in the Justice DD and the court filing DTD. I am not willing to change unless
there is purpose and value add from the change. Don't move my
cheese unless you can justify the move.
gary
