SBVR14 — Section: 8.3

ISSUE: Use URI to Uniquely Identify and Assert the Existence of Every 'Thing' Represented in an SBVR Model to Support Multi-Classification of 'Things' Need to develop a URI pattern for all kinds of representations that can assert the existence of any 'thing' in an SBVR Model. These patterns need to take Speech Community and Symbol Context / Subejct Area into account. The appraoch chosen needs to support composite identifiers and identifiers with a narrow context scope. Topic Maps has an excellent approach for this and has done extensive work with the W3C to identifying the issues with URIs and the best ways to deal with them. For Topic Map / W3C References see: ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/sbvr-ftf/Issue%20Attachments/Subject%20Identifiers.doc Another benefit of this is that is laying the necessary foundation for mapping to RDF/ORL as well as the Rules Interchange Format

Deferred to SBVR v1.5 Revision Task Force because the SBVR v1.4 RTF was requested to close before it was finished so the SBVR RTF could be convert to JIRA.