1 mike  1.1 
 2               1.	May associations span namespaces? And if so, how can one
 3           	make sense of references referring to object names with no
 4           	namespace. And since the CIM operation specifies a target
 5           	namespace anyhow, what is the target namespace for? Is it 
 6           	the namespace to place the new association in on a 
 7           	createInstance().

 8 mike  1.2 
 9           	If associations can span namespaces, should the association name
10           	in the association file contain a namespace?