# TAG. What does it mean and what is it for?

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**Created:** [December 19, 2019, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/tag-what-does-it-mean-and-what-is-it-for/2170 "2019-12-19T08:11:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moult](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.buildingsmart.org/moult/32/196_2.png) [@Moult](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/u/Moult)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/tag-what-does-it-mean-and-what-is-it-for/2170/12 "2021-06-23T23:03:43Z")

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That’s a good point - the original use is ambiguous. The name is ambiguous, and the description is ambiguous. What do you think about deprecating the attribute and if vendors want to continue to store their authoring ID, they can use a pset?

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