COMMONS13 — Need the ability to describe the concept of authorization

Concepts including authorization (as a situation), roles of authorizing party and authorized party, and related properties are needed by a number of task forces for describing the legal authority some party may have with respect to some organization or process, including delegated authority.

Need the ability to describe the concept of authority

This revision adds a new business authorizations ontology, updates the relevant metadata files, and reuses the concept of an authorizing party in regulatory agencies and registration authorities.

This resolution depends on the resolution of the issues included in Ballots #1-#3 in terms of the metadata changes made therein to various files, as well as on the resolutions of COMMONS13-10 and COMMONS13-27 in order to update the AboutCommons metadata file to include the new ontologies. This file does not add semantics, however – it is provided for ease of use only.