Re: "entailment regime"?

• From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
• Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:41:49 -0400
• To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
• Cc: public-rif-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <7938.1183941709@ubuhebe>

> Ok. I trust the chairs will send a signal when, in their judgement,  
> this is noise rather than signal. But I'll also cut it short.

Or everyone will just tune us out.  :-)

> > On the other hand, as a user, I'd hate to have to guess which  
> > entailment
> > regime is the right one. There's a terrible failure mode, where I'm
> > trying to learn something -- maybe the room number for the room where
> > I'm supposed to lecture tonight -- and when I ask the room-reservation
> > sparql endpoint, I have to guess which entailment regime it should  
> > use.
> 
> I don't find this remotely realistic. 

Then I think we have some different underlying assumptions.

I think you're arguing for Option 2 -- saying that there must be
metadata (something like a mime-type header) on each RDF document to
tell you which entailment regime is to be used with it.   Is that what
you're saying?

(best clarify this before I reply to the rest of your message).

   -- Sandro

Received on Monday, 9 July 2007 00:42:45 UTC