[sc34wg3] TNC backward compatibility

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Steve Pepper
| 
| I think we want to keep the notion of subject identification as
| something quite separate, even though the effects (in terms of
| merging) have points in common.

I agree with all of what Steve says, but would like to add a SAM quote
here:

  "The properties of topic items that do not represent topic
  characteristics are not statements about the subject; they are
  statements about the topic. As such they are part of the topic map
  machinery, rather than statements about the subject represented in
  the topic map."     -- SAM, 3.4.2

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