[sc34wg3] Association items

[Nikita Ogievetsky]

Lars,

! |
! | But to me the "unconstrained" scope caries the topic map
! | (authorship) context.
! 
! I think that's fair enough, but it's difficult (and unnecessary) to
! represent this in the model (or the prose), since there is no notion
! of an author in topic maps. You don't know who the author of any given
! piece of information is, so we can't really add this in the model. It
! has to be up to individual users to apply this themselves when they
! use someone else's topic map. (Or their own, for that matter.)
! 

Almost agree. Only there is a way to put in the model by changing 3.32:
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unconstrained scope 

the scope used to indicate that a topic characteristic assignment is
considered to have unlimited validity "within the containing topic map".
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Regards,

--Nikita