Enough already

If I may interject in this debate, this all seems quite bewildering to me.

I am a pragmatic, practitioner of semantic technologies;  is a mere consumer of W3C standards. Our company builds products based on your ideas and so maybe I am not accustomed to how these things get cooked up, but take a look at yourselves please. Somebody needs to inject a dose of reality into this conversation.

We are very interested in the SHACL standard making it’s way through this process and becoming endorsed so that we can commit to it in our products. There will be no better test of the value and robustness of SHACL than the community of semantic developers applying it in practice. 

No standard is born perfect, of course it will evolve and I expect we will find issues that will surely be addressed as it matures. But it needs to get out of the door. 

Perfection is the enemy of innovation here.

If there are any substantive issues with the standard, then of course robust debate is great, but that should be in the form of a positive, constructive suggestions. I am just seeing myopic, pedantic grandstanding here.

There is a very vocal minority (of one) holding this debate hostage and it is a travesty that the enormous effort that has gone into this piece of work is being held up in this way.

Enough already


Terry Roach 
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