TTP is Published - A System Specification in Narrative Form - Crap

The TPP is public.  This link to it.  Take a look.  Long narrative specification.

What a pathetic way to produce a specification in the Information Age.  Old school playing with natural language and all of its ambiguities is a linear specification presentation that depends on the reader's ability to consume it one word at a time and then create/connect the larger conceptual picture of higher level abstract relationships in their heads.

If that was the way a computer or application program was specified we would never have them.

TPP is full of ambiguity.  That is the nature of the medium of natural language, even in its more precise legal "programming" frame.  Programmed with natural words but not expressed in a meta data structure beyond a table of contents and page numbers.  TPP is a frame in which the reader must have framework knowledge in their head to interpret what it says.  Few of us have that.  If we do then it is not "standardized"

What one person has a system concept and its application may not be the same as another persons concept and application of the same thing.  Is that a feature or a bug of the narrative system specification of a complex conceptual system design.

If the plan was presented to me then I would take it throw it in the trash can and tell whoever created it to come back with a Object Oriented design plan using Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodology to describe its high level conceptual relationships.

What is that?  A table of contents on steroids that gets the big picture in relational perspective for a top down integrated breakdown to the details of implementation.

TPP is patently a self serving corporatism plan to dominate national sovereignty by theft of rights.  It has to hide the fact of that theft down in the weeds of a narrative that is not only difficult to parse but obscures the theft at the high level abstract relationship of rights between National Governments and Global Corporate power.

TPP is a crappy document as far as clarity is concerned.  Narrative form is a crappy method of presenting system design in the information age.  Narrative form however is an excellent way to hide the truth of complex relationships in the fog of natural language words.

I would tell the creators to come back with a UML based spec.  They would say they can't do that.  Of course they can't.  They would have to hire specialists that use a different language to parse the narrative and tease out its meaning in UML format.

The top level entity Super Classes in this plan are Global Enterprise and Government Enterprise and their respective attributes and problem domain rights.

A clear picture of the horse trades at that level expressed in a precise language of Information Engineering would display that in the relationship between the two top level entities there is a flow of controlling attributes from Government to Corporate.

When Corporate Globalism gets enough of Government attributes, methods and control messages then it controls the entire system.

Republican philosophy bumped up to a level above Government.

TPP a crappy Trojan Horse document.  It sets the frame for expressing its specifications.  The old school narrative frame to cover up rigid protocol supporting sub-structure that is more inclined to express specifications and relationships actually using Information Age language and design practices.

The TPP document should be remanded to Information specialists to be rewritten in UML.  They however would refuse to do it.  They are no longer tolerant of management that produces such crap and expect the Engineers to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.  If management cannot speak and understand the fundamental language of the Information Age then whatever their enterprise is then it should die a natural death in the selection of the fittest that chooses a better alternative system built with a better language.

The essence of the Information Age is reduction in ambiguity.  Ambiguity at the granular digital level that has been applied in an integrated application to reduction of ambiguity at increasingly higher abstract conceptual levels of logic programming application language and methods.

The Information Age tools that few are gifted to comprehend and apply in their reach has exceeded the grasp of the general population.  A failure of our Industrial Age school system.  On the other hand the Information Age brings clarity to complexity.  Clarity in the form of essential fundamental truths from lowest to highest conceptual levels beyond the ability of natural language to convey because of its ambiguity.

The generally perceived product of the Information Age is natural language.  An ambiguous thing whose volume in magnitude has increased by orders of magnitude.  The structural language of Information however is not Natural Language but a new language of technicians that we are slowly learning.  Learning so slowly that we can't as a general population see the wool being pulled over our eyes by TPP.  Those that do are either able to assemble through interpretation translation of the Natural Language of the document to a more accurate, less ambiguous Information Model in their heads.  Genius if they can do it. 

We should all just be a little bit smarter and we could see the broad forest for the trees.  That big picture view should be served up to us by honest practitioners of Information Science that can take us all the way down to the tree level if necessary to validate the benefit to us of how the big Super Class entities of our world like Business and Government relate to each other.

That idealistic view is currently served up to us by public politicians and private industry.  "Serving up" is not the same as objective service for us to understand.

TPP is certainly hard to understand.  It actually is not.  It is a power play at the top level.

The most brazen power grab in American history!

Got that right Cris!

"Given the bankruptcy of our political class—including amoral politicians such as Hillary Clinton, who is denouncing the TPP during the presidential campaign but whose unwavering service to corporate capitalism assures her fealty to her corporate backers—the trade agreement has a good chance of becoming law. And because the Obama administration won fast-track authority, a tactic designed by the Nixon administration to subvert democratic debate, President Obama will be able to sign the agreement before it goes to Congress.  "