Re: regrets and a few comments on versioning/imports

From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
Subject: regrets and a few comments on versioning/imports
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:59:07 +0100

> 
> 
> I'm at the RIF F2F, and we just had a WG resolution to go for beer, so I
> may not be able to attend the OWL telecon.   :-)

[...]

> I would also like some acknowledgement that some systems do
> "auto-imports", where they perform imports based on the URIs used in the
> document (especially as names for classes and properties), even when no
> imports directive is present.  We don't need to pass judgement on this
> practice, but if we don't mention it, it's rather confusing how this
> (perfectly legitimate) practice relates to OWL2 import.

This has always been outside of OWL (and RDF).  The OWL 1 documents were
silent on this, and I think that the OWL 2 documents should similarly be
silent.

>    -- Sandro

peter