COMMONS12 — Several OMG and external ontology efforts need to be able to talk about registration authorities

Requirements range from retail to finance and health care, where certain constructs, such as identifiers, are registered with specific authorities, and understanding who has registered a particular identifier is essential to the definition of that identifier.

Coverage should include definitions for registration authority, registrar (which could be a person or organization, and may or may not be part of the same organization as the authority), a registered identifier, which should be modeled as a contextual identifier, the registry and some registration scheme.

Note that the resolution to this issue depends on Commons-1.2-8, including properties in the organizations ontology.

Add a new ontology covering registration authorities to the Commons library

Requirements range from retail to finance, government, pharmaceuticals, and health care, where certain constructs, such as identifiers, are registered with specific authorities, and understanding who has registered a particular identifier is essential to the definition of that identifier.

The OMG's FIGI standard, for example, allows for a single registration authority (RA), which is Bloomberg LP, but enables multiple registrars to act on behalf of the RA. Today registrars include Bloomberg LP as well as Kaiko.

Coverage should include definitions for registration authority, registrar (which could be a person or organization, and may or may not be part of the same organization as the authority), a registered identifier, which should be modeled as a contextual identifier, the registry and some registration scheme.

Note that the resolution to this issue depends on the resolutions in Ballot #3, Commons-1.2-8, including properties in the organizations ontology.