Rich,

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"explicitly implied" is actually contradiction in terms: Agreed -- but I couldn't think of a different term to express what I meant.

As one of NameUasage camp, I would rephrase as: "Any data object reprsenting an occurrence of a NameString as it appears, or, interpreted as explicit by the data provider, within some form of static documentation." I suspect we may slipping off from data object identification to how to when one should create a data objects. I'm very sorry that my real life prevents to contribute, or even to read the on-going important discussion on GUID... Cheers, James