It is quite clear, however, that others have been misled by the present name, and the consequence has been that it has take some effort to clarify concepts. We need to be able to put ourselves in other people’s shoes, and not just look at something from our own viewpoint. Good communication is a co-operative process, and demands some effort from both sides, but if the originator of the discourse does not try to avoid ambiguity, it certainly makes misunderstanding possible. I think it has become clear that the term “Key Attributes” is ambiguous, and open to a variety of interpretations.
That may be the way that you use them, but it might not be the way that others use them, or how they conceptualise them. Once again, I would say that we need to guard against the assumption that our own practice and viewpoint is typical. It has become clear that a number of people thought that Key Attributes were the only attributes that a Note had, and that you had to make something a Key Attribute in order to be able to use it with a Note. I have lost track of which threads touch on this matter, but it has come up more than once in recent months, hence the consideration being given to a less ambiguous and misleading name.