Re: [RIF] [UCR]: What is the RIF (revisited)

Bijan Parsia wrote:

>> Shouldn't be OWL added to the list as well?
> 
> 
> Which species of OWL?

I had OWL-DL in mind.

>> In general, it seems that IETF process of accepting Internet
>> standards/RFCs (the requirement for prior implementation and testing)
>> works well.
> 
> 
> The W3C has a similar requirement. The CR (candidate recommendation)
> phase is where you are required to gather implementation experience of
> the complete design. Hence, while designing, you look for current
> implementation experience in anticipation of the CR. This was, in fact,
> done for OWL, esp. the DL fragment. My organization (the MIND Lab)
> started our OWL DL ++ reasoner Pellet specifically to show that
> traditional tableau reasoners were not *that* difficult to implement
> (i.e., there had been some concern in the WebOnt group that only people
> deep in the DL community could do it; not so).

So, according to the above, is my understanding correct that Pellet
fully supports OWL-DL?
Or is it just a demo, that it *could* be implemented?

Regards,
Igor

Received on Sunday, 12 February 2006 09:18:26 UTC