Re: [ALL] RDF/A Primer Version

Pat Hayes wrote:
> Well, yes, it is hard to argue with that. But if 10|6 websites, say, 
> already use webpage URIs to refer to their owners, and if the normative 
> semantic theories in the specifications do not prohibit this (as they do 
> not) and all the machinery that processes this information works (as it 
> does) why is it considered 'good practice' to set out to re-educate 
> everyone and to oblige them to to change? Seems to me it might be more 
> productive to take a more empirical and less judgmental stance, and ask 
> why and how this situation, which theory predicts should lead to 
> confusion, apparently does not lead to confusion. The TAG 
> recommendations seem to be based on an implicit theory of ambiguity and 
> communication. Projects like FOAF seem to me to be empirical refutations 
> of this theory.


Big cheer from the sidelines ...

Jeremy