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 Ken, The published specification of SBVR is dtc/08-01-02. That's the one you should be reading, although the definition of ‘body of shared meanings’ hasn’t changed much since dtc/06-03-02. It is now: “set of concepts and elements of guidance for which there is a shared understanding in a given semantic community” A body of shared ...

  Ken,A semantic community is a group of people. Their body of shared meanings is what corresponds to a Universe of Discourse. People can join the community, or stop believing and leave the community, without changing the body of shared meanings. A speech community is a part of a semantic community – the people in the semantic ...