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["Sergio M. Freire" <sergio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim and all,

I raised several bugs regarding the demographic model implementation. How
does it work from now on? Who is responsible for confirming them, setting
their importance etc? These is not clear for me.

I committed several changes to the demographic model in the corresponding
branch.

I would like you to consider merging them to the trunk. Doing so I think
that the majority of the bugs will be fixed. However I have some comments
and doubts regarding the demographic model specification and the
corresponding implementation:

1) I think that the reverse_Relationship_validity is not implementable at
the current stage because it requires a demographic service that would
return the respective partyRelationship from its partyRelationship
reference. Analogous reasoning applies to source_Valid and Target_Valid in
PartyRelationship

2) The function asString for PartyIdentity and Address is a bit strange
for me. How do we know what it should return? The string representation
for a party identity or an address should be specified in the archetypes,
doesn't it?

3) The invariant Legal_identity_exists in Actor requires an identity with
purpose "legal identity".
I think this is misspecified for the following reason: the specification
of what types of identity is allowed and what is required should be left
out to the archetypes. In ISO22220 one of these types is legal name or
registered name, not exactly legal identity. Even so it should not be
mandatory to have one legal name. Imagine the situation where you have to
register a newborn who has not a legal name yet. Even if things should be
so, the way it is specified seems to be english oriented. It should use
the ontology  and use the local description of the term legal identity. In
portuguese, for example, it should be something like "nome legal". While
we don't settle this issue I preferred not to implement this invariant and
returned true in the function hasLegaIdentity.

Cheers,

Sergio