PROV-ISSUE-1: a proposal to vote on

Dear all,

You will recall we failed to reach consensus on the following proposal 
at the last teleconference:
  "in a first instance, to define the necessary concepts that allow us 
to express the provenance
of a thing that does not change".  Kai, Jim and Satya then expressed 
concerns, which can be
summarized as, this proposal provides no route to handle mutable things.

After a long email discussion with them over the WE, we have converged 
towards a better
proposal:

/In a first instance, to define the necessary concepts that allow us to 
express the provenance of
an invariant view or perspective on a thing./

What is important to note is that it is the view/perspective that does 
not change, the thing
itself can be mutable.

To allow us to progress, can you express by +1/-1/0 your support for 
this proposal?

Best regards,
Luc

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Professor Luc Moreau
Electronics and Computer Science   tel:   +44 23 8059 4487
University of Southampton          fax:   +44 23 8059 2865
Southampton SO17 1BJ               email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk
United Kingdom                     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm