change gist:Specification textual description

[marksem]

Proposal: change gist:Specification textual description to say "A requirement or set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service."

Rationale:

Currently (through v9.5.0), gist:Specification is a subClassOf gist:Requriement. But its textual definition is: "A set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service." As such, it would most naturally seem to be a sub of Collection.

If we change to say it is "a requirement or set of requirements," we could be OK since Requirement and Collection are not disjoint. This allows us to keep our textual definition part about "… to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service", which I like because it distinguishes it from a more general Requirement.

(@mkumba supports this change)

[rjyounes]

To be legalistic, a set may have one member. Or none - perhaps we should say "...a non-empty set of requirements..."

That being said, the proposal seems fine to me given ordinary English usage.

[uscholdm]

Or getting rid of the geek-speak altogether: One or more requirements. Simpler, if a tad less precise.

[rjyounes]

This is subsumed by #534 but I'm leaving it open so we make sure to consider the specific issues addressed here.

[uscholdm]

SUGGESTION: change the definition to be:

• "One or more requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service."

[rjyounes]

I agree with @uscholdm's suggestion.