John F. Sowa wrote: (01)
> SC32/WG2 is the same committee that developed the Metadata standards
> and the ISO/IEC standard for Common Logic. The US TAG is INCITS L8.
> A 60 day letter ballot went out on whether to approve a study period.
> The deadline for responses was 9 April 2009:
>
> http://jtc1sc32.org/doc/N1801-1850/32N1833B-LB_Study_Period-WG2-MCO.doc
>
> GPZ> Another SUO, then years later ...
>
> Not quite. The SUO project had been approved by the IEEE as a
> standards project. This is a letter ballot to approve a study
> period to determine whether they should have a standards project.
> They can apply all the experience gained from the SUO to this
> study project. (02)
More to the point, the purpose of an ISO "study period" is to determine
whether there is a specification or parts of a specification that has
sufficient consensus for standardization and meets some perceived
communal need (either in industry, or in the making of other standards). (03)
The idea that some amalgam of BFO, DOLCE and SUO would have such
consensus would be supported by findings from the study period that some
useful common set of concepts is essentially identical across these
ontologies, differing only in terminology. (04)
It was the communal recognition that this was the case for first-order
logic languages that gave rise to Common Logic, without a formal "study
period". But the fundamental set of first-order logic concepts is
fairly small. For the MCO, the set of interesting concepts is
unbounded; so the problem is to find a useful set on which the
profferred upper ontologies agree, or can be "readily" brought into
agreement. (05)
-Ed (06)
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and have not been reviewed by any Government authority." (08)
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