The next version of FIX can try, but everyone stopped upgrading FIX versions years ago. Also, once you standardize the liquidity field, you need to think about its values. These expand continuously...it used to be two or three values, now some systems use a dozen or more.
Basically, if you want a protocol for legal documents, you may as well use an existing one, such as PDF, XLS, TeX, etc. Trying to embed more domain knowledge in the protocol will never work at a highly generalized level. It would be like asking HTTP to standardize e-commerce.
Well, the body of this case law (and all other laws)
is what I refer to as "single source of truth".
Yes, "single source" is very much an euphemism.
In practice it's far from a single source, but rather
a poorly synchronized mess. Which is exactly
what I'm proposing to fix.
If we were to wrap it into a github-style model then cases
could be represented as branches. Case-law would evolve
in the form of patches and pull-requests.
Basically, if you want a protocol for legal documents, you may as well use an existing one, such as PDF, XLS, TeX, etc. Trying to embed more domain knowledge in the protocol will never work at a highly generalized level. It would be like asking HTTP to standardize e-commerce.