Re: names, elevator speeches, slides, and marketing

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 14:34, Dan Connolly wrote:
[...]
> I don't like "RDF Query Language" for the same reason
> I no longer like "XML Schema" -- it's lazy and impolite
> to take the generic name, as if all other RDF query
> languages will cease to be useful and no new ones
> will ever be developed.

to clarify: it's lazy to *presume* that all other
RDF query language work will go away. It's our
goal to set the standard, but we shouldn't presume
to do so before we've done it.


-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Sunday, 5 September 2004 19:37:56 UTC