Timestamps and Temporal Intervals

I want to help drive closure on Timestamps and breach the topic of 
Temporal Intervals* for the next major version. 

I posit there are two distinct temporal aspects to the _expression_ of "things" and their relationships to other "things" in the CTI Domain.  

(1) Absolute:  "Event x"  happened at absolute Time "T1".

(2) Relative Intervals:  "Event x" happened "Relative To(Rn**)" "Event y"
[at relative interval "Interval In"] 

 **Where Rn = [Before, During, After,  At_Start_Of, At_End_Of, ...]

Therefore, we need to represent these temporal concepts in different forms (breaking the "One way to do Things" rule on the basis that these are two different "Things").

I believe we are very close to reaching consensus on
Absolute Timestamps.  I propose that we should specifically identify and treat
Temporal Intervals as a separate requirement and topic for discussion somewhere in the Road Map.
 (IF there is consensus:  perhaps as part of Relationships and/or Patterning???)

* To set the framework for what is meant by "Temporal Intervals",  and some approaches one can consider in their representation, I refer everyone to James Allen's seminal paper from 1983:

http://cse.unl.edu/~choueiry/Documents/Allen-CACM1983.pdf

Patrick Maroney

Office:  (856)983-0001

Cell:      (609)841-5104

President

Integrated Networking Technologies, Inc.

PO Box 569

Marlton, NJ 08053