- From: Vassilis Christophides <christop@ics.forth.gr>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:22:42 +0200 (EET)
- To: danbri@w3.org
- Cc: brian_mcbride@hp.com, www-rdf-comments@w3.org
Dan Thanks for the answer. Yes it is quite quite intresting to open the discussion on the two issues. My understanding is that only if you have in mind the whole picture of the RDF/S specifications you may arrive to useful design choices. Furthermore, up to know most of the choices are based on the open world assumption. However, I din't see any useful reasoning service defined on top. On the contrary I have seen a lost of useful services (validation, efficient storage, query optimization) based on the "closed world assuption". It is quite disappointing that after 4 years of passionate discussions on the open world assuption the only real systems that someone can use and implement bits of the Semantic Web are based on the "closed world assuption". This is quite scary!!! Best Vassilis
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