- From: Ivan Mikhailov <imikhailov@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:37:43 +0600
- To: Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net>
- Cc: Chimezie Ogbuji <ogbujic@ccf.org>, "Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com>, SPARQL Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
Lee, > """ > Although the community has expressed opinions on various types of > extensions to SPARQL, this Working Group is only chartered to make > additions that are expected to be widely used and can be shown to exist > in multiple, interoperable implementations. It is not the goal of this > working group to make a significant upgrade of the SPARQL language. > """ OK, I've thought that "significant upgrade" is for rules, rdb2rdf, merging with some 4GL and other things of same magnitude. > I'm confident that whatever features we end up specifying we're going to > contribute some important advances to SPARQL and the broader Semantic > Web community, but I'm even more confident--based on what I've seen > since January 2008--that whatever 35 (or so) features we *do not* > specify will not lethally harm the adoption and utility of SPARQL. :-) Well, OK. Let's eat the elephant one bite at a time. Best Regards, Ivan Mikhailov.
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