Thanks for the responses.

So I guess this might very well be a start of a general evolution in the meta 
model? It might be worth already now thinking a little through the possible 
consequences of this direction going forward. I think this is something we need 
:)

As we work through how to represent the meta model in external formats (xml and 
so on), this might have implications on how generic a model we should create 
for these formats (and I guess the attribute definitions themselves have to 
represented in some way). In that context it might make sense to generalize 
both the objects these attributes apply to and the way we represent atrributes 
more generally. And also at least look at and specify likely future 
harmonization now? 

Changing the external formats once they are created is much more difficult than 
changing implementation details, so it might be worth it to think a little bit 
broader already now.

A minor point - when I saw the term dynamic attributes, I was immediately 
thinking free-form attributes (more like tags you could put on individual org 
units). But I guess this is about predefined attribute types applied to 
(specific) meta objects(?) Maybe just calling it "attributes" might be good 
enough, if that is what it is?

Jo
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