- From: Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:35:09 -0400
- To: Rob Shearer <Rob.Shearer@networkinference.com>
- Cc: Kendall Clark <kendall@monkeyfist.com>, public-rdf-dawg@w3.org
Rob Shearer wrote: >If we're talking about aggregating a bunch of separate RDF repositories, >this seems clearly out of scope. The aggregation of multiple >repositories is nothing but a new repository. How repositories are >formed or composed is an architecural issue that is going to cost us a >year if we really do it the right way. Let's not do it--if you want to >write a query client which touches a dozen different repositories, then >write an app that joins them all into a local virtual repository and >then query that. > > +1 on keeping federated query support out-of-scope. IMO, our focus should be on one querying one RDF repository. Other standards such as ebXML Registry (ISO 15000 part 3 and 4) can provide federated capabilities across multiple repositories with access control etc. -- Regards, Farrukh
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