Re: The first sentence

Hi Seth,

At 06:29 28/10/2002 -0800, Seth Russell wrote:

>re: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Oct/0402.html
>
>where Brian suggests:
>
>[[The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing 
>information in the Web.]]
>
>What is "the Web" ?  If we use RDF to transfer informatin from one p2p 
>node to another, is that information "in the Web" ?
>
>If we use RDF to transfer information in emails, is that "in the Web" ?
>
>How about the following sentence instead:
>
>The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing 
>information on the Internet.

I agree with you mostly, except that we are a W3C WG which means we propose 
recommendations for the web.  If folks want to use them elsewhere, then 
that is great, my joy is unbounded.  But I have a niggling concern that if 
we were to adopt your formulation, then some ietf folks might get a bit 
miffed because W3C were setting out to define internet standards.  Our 
design centre is the web.

Brian