RE: ACTION-275: Unicode, XML, RDF references

>From: Bijan Parsia [mailto:bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk]

>You misunderstand me. The point is that RDF "the language" isn't
>necessarily fixed. There might be new versions, just as their might
>be new version of Unicode. The issue is whether your document should
>normatively reference a *particular* version or normatively reference
>the current "and any future one".

Ah, sorry, really a misunderstanding on my side.

>> But as I said, I have no problem with adding the additional
>> information.
>> Just let's have a common policy, in order to reduce creativity. :)
>
>Obviously, that's what I'm trying to do.
>
>But sometimes it may make sense to refer to a fixed version in one
>document and not in another. For example, allowing any future version
>of XML be a legal OWL/XML syntax is probably ok. Claiming that your
>semantics is an extension of *any future* RDF semantics probably isn't.

It's definitely an extension of that particular RDF Semantics specification.
It's impossible to foresee the future, and there may be a lot of new things
and changes in an RDF 2 spec that may then be in conflict with current OWL 2
Full. Same for RDF Concepts. 

>Cheers,
>Bijan.

Cheers,
Michael

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