th a context mechanism that allows for a few 
&gt;different, although compatible, approaches in limited areas.

I believe that an alternative could be a "minimal" common ontology 
with a few main branches, which in turn may have more specialized 
branches in limited areas. Of course, the less branches the better.

In practice, my proposal is as follows:

1. Let's carefully (and painfully) distinguish between axioms and 
primitives that achieve (reasonably large) consensus and 
axioms/primitives that do not;