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Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Proposed "person" object




From: "Poindexter, Gary W" <gpoindexter@kpmg.com>
To: Court Filing List <legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org>
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