In the context of this discussion, I refer you to http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Aug/0167.html, in which Pat Hayes says: > >Is there an appealing use case for untidy literals that is not long > >range datatyping (aka implicit/global idiom)? > > > >Are we closing off any important extensibility paths if we go for > >tidy literals? > > With regards to this last point, yes. DAML and OIL and probably OWL > will need the flexibility of allowing (semantically) untidy literals, > and if we forbid them then the DAML spec will need to be rewritten > and OWL will probably no longer base itself on RDF (or, an > alternative scenario, the Webont WG will split apart into two rival > groups which will produce incompatible standards. It is perilously > close to this already.) --Frank Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > If the chair wishes, I would be prepare to propose the following resolution: > > The WG resolves: > + that the RDF Core Specs will include a local datatyping mechanism > + that the RDF Core Specs will not include a global datatyping mechanism > + to rescind the stake-in-the-ground decision > DECISION 2002-02-22/2: > DECISION 2002-02-22/3: > see > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Feb/0656.html > > If we were to consider this I would suggest three straw poll questions > before hand: > > Qu1: who cannot live with a tidy model theory and no global datatyping? > Qu2: who cannot live with an untidy model theory and no global datatyping? > Qu3: who cannot live with no global datatyping? > > My suspicion is that while many in the group have strong opinions about both > tidiness and global datatyping that a decision not to do global datatyping > reduces the tension and permits us to achieve consensus, at the cost of > doing less. > > I would be surprised if we are down to fewer than one responder to each of > those, but we might find that the minorities are small enough to be > overruled without breaking consensus. > > Jeremy -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-8752Received on Thursday, 29 August 2002 10:19:08 EDT
This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Wednesday, 3 September 2003 09:50:29 EDT