<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>I am still struggling to improve Clause 9. To do so, I </div><div>think that we should revisit definitions.</div><div><br></div><div>I had a look at Directives, Part 2. It says:</div>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre"> <p class="gmail-Body-Text" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-size:0.92em;text-decoration:none;font-variant:normal;line-height:1.1;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Terms and definitions should preferably be listed according to the hierarchy of the concepts (i.e. systematic order). Alphabetical order is the least preferred order.</p><table id="gmail-table061" class="gmail-Table gmail-_idGenTablePara-1" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);width:1886px;margin:10px 0px 20px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HG明朝E;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class="gmail-Table" style="break-after:auto;break-before:auto"><td class="gmail-Table gmail-Table_Table-single-1col gmail-CellOverride-1" style="border-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-style:solid;border-width:1px;padding:4px;vertical-align:top"><p class="gmail-Table-Text-9-Body-First-Top-Left" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:0.75em;text-decoration:none;font-variant:normal;line-height:1.1;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0px;margin:0px">EXAMPLE 2</p><p class="gmail-Table-Text-9-Body-First-Top-Left" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:0.75em;text-decoration:none;font-variant:normal;line-height:1.1;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0px;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-CharOverride-4" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:bold">3 Terms and definitions</span></p><p class="gmail-Table-Text-9-Body-First-Top-Left" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:0.75em;text-decoration:none;font-variant:normal;line-height:1.1;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0px;margin:0px">[…]</p><p class="gmail-Table-Text-9-Body-First-Top-Left" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:0.75em;text-decoration:none;font-variant:normal;line-height:1.1;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0px;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-CharOverride-4" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:bold">3.2 Surface properties</span></p><p class="gmail-Table-Text-9-Body-First-Top-Left" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:0.75em;text-decoration:none;font-variant:normal;line-height:1.1;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0px;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-CharOverride-4" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:bold">3.2.1<span> </span></span><br><span class="gmail-CharOverride-4" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:bold">abrasion</span><br>loss of material from a surface due to frictional forces</p><p class="gmail-Table-Text-9-Body-First-Top-Left" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:0.75em;text-decoration:none;font-variant:normal;line-height:1.1;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0px;margin:0px">[…]</p><p class="gmail-Table-Text-9-Body-First-Top-Left" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:0.75em;text-decoration:none;font-variant:normal;line-height:1.1;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0px;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-CharOverride-4" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:bold">3.5 Optical properties</span></p><p class="gmail-Table-Text-9-Body-First-Top-Left" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:0.75em;text-decoration:none;font-variant:normal;line-height:1.1;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0px;margin:0px">[…]</p><p class="gmail-Table-Text-9-Body-First-Top-Left" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:0.75em;text-decoration:none;font-variant:normal;line-height:1.1;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0px;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-CharOverride-4" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:bold">3.5.8</span><br><span class="gmail-CharOverride-4" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:bold">colour retention</span><br>degree of permanence of a colour</p><p class="gmail-Table-Text-9-Body-First-Top-Left" style="font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:0.75em;text-decoration:none;font-variant:normal;line-height:1.1;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:0px;margin:0px">Note 1 to entry: Colour retention can be influenced by weathering.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> </span><div>I tried to follow this guideline in the following new set of definitions.</div><div><br></div><div>Your comments are very welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Makoto<span style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div>4. Terms and Definitions<div><br></div><div>****</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div>4.1 Basics</div><div><br></div><div>4.1.1</div><div>byte</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>sequence of 8 bits treated as a unit</div><div><br></div><div>4.1.2</div><div>stream</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>linearly ordered sequence of bytes</div><div>4.1.3</div><div>device</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>hardware, such as a personal computer, printer, or scanner,</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>that performs a single function or set of functions</div><div>4.1.4</div><div>behavior</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>external appearance or action</div><div><br></div><div>4.1.5</div><div>behavior, implementation-defined</div><div>behavior, application-defined</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>unspecified behavior where each implementation shall document that behavior, thereby promoting predictability and reproducibility within any given implementation</div><div><br></div><div>4.1.6</div><div>behavior, unspecified</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>behavior where this document imposes no requirements</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>4.2 Abstract package model</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>4.2.1</div><div>part</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>stream with a name, a MIME media type, and associated common properties</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.2</div><div>package, abstract</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> container that holds a collection of parts</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.3</div><div>relationship</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>package relationship or part relationship</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.4</div><div>relationship, package</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>connection from a package to a specific part in the same</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>package, or to an external resource</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.5</div><div>relationship, part</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>connection from a part in a package to another part in the</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>same package, or to an external resource</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.6</div><div>source</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>part or package from which a connection is established by a relationship</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.7</div><div>target</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>part or external resource to which a connection is established by a relationship</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.8</div><div>relationship type</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>absolute IRI for specifying the role of a relationship</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.9</div><div>Relationships part</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>part containing an XML representation of relationships</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.10</div><div>package model, abstract</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>abstract model that defines packages</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.11</div><div>growth hint</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>suggested number of bytes to reserve for a part to grow in place</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.12</div><div>pack scheme</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>URI scheme that allows IRIs to be used as a uniform mechanism</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>for addressing parts within a package</div><div><br></div><div>4.2.13</div><div>pack IRI</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>IRI that conforms to the pack scheme</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>4.3 physical package model</div><div><br></div><div>4.3.1</div><div>physical format</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> specific file format, or other persistence or transport mechanism</div><div><br></div><div>4.3.2</div><div>package, physical</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>the result of mapping an abstract package to a physical format</div><div><br></div><div>4.3.3</div><div>package model, physical</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>a pair of a physical format and a mapping between the abstract</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>package model and this physical format</div><div><br></div><div>4.3.4</div><div>piece</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>portion of a part.</div><div><br></div><div>4.3.5</div><div>logical item</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>either a non-interleaved part or a piece of an interleaved part</div><div><br></div><div>4.3.6</div><div>physical package item</div><div>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre"> </span>To be supplied. </div><div><br></div><div>4.3.7</div><div>ZIP item</div><div> an atomic set of data in a ZIP file that becomes a file when the archive is uncompressed</div><div><br></div><div>4.3.8</div><div>ZIP file</div><div> ZIP file as defined in the ZIP file format specification</div><div><br></div><div>4.3.9</div><div>simple ordering</div><div> defined ordering for laying out the parts in a package in which</div><div> all the bits comprising each part are stored contiguously</div><div>4.3.10</div><div>interleaved ordering</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>defined ordering for laying out the parts in a package in</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>which parts are broken into pieces and “mixed-in” with</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>pieces from other parts</div><div><br></div><div>4.4 digital signature and thumnail</div><div><br></div><div>4.4.1</div><div><br></div><div>signature policy</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> format-defined policy that specifies what configuration of</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> parts and relationships shall or might be included in a</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> signature for that format and what additional behaviors that</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> producers and consumers of that format shall follow when</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> applying or verifying signatures following that format's</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span> signature policy</div><div><br></div><div>4.4,2</div><div>thumbnail</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>small image that is a graphical representation of a part or the package as a whole</div><div><br></div><div>4.5 Implementations</div><div><br></div><div>4.5.1</div><div>package implementer</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>software that implements the physical input-output operations</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>to a physical package according to the requirements and</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>recommendations of this document</div><div><br></div><div>4.5.2</div><div>consumer</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>software or device that reads physical packages through a package implementer</div><div><br></div><div>4.5.3</div><div>producer</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>software or device that writes physical packages through a package implementer</div></div>
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