- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:44:59 -0700
- To: Neil Smith <neil_smith@newton.co.uk>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
At 04:22 PM 8/16/01 +0100, Neil Smith wrote: >Can we not get the product established in real world applications, and >then tidy it up later? Not if the "establishing" is contingent on the "tidying". However there is some tendency to insist that "facts" = "problems" and this is often a stretch. It may be "factual" that there could be two people on the planet named "William Baldridge Loughborough, Jr." but it'd be hard to convince me that the "problems" therefrom would make the current practices of naming children unusable. In fact I'd bet that pedants can find endless reasons to further delay use of this stuff until we can have another pointless conference over it. Xanadu has been vaporware for longer than WWW has transformed many aspects of life on the planet. If there's any chance that "getting on with it" can help end such notions as "starving babies" and "war" then let's do more of that. If, however there is a truly "fatal flaw" in what's in the specs/standards/recommendations/procedures/languages/+, BRING IT. Just don't confuse "facts" with "problems". -- Love. EACH UN-INDEXED/ANNOTATED WEB POSTING WE MAKE IS TESTAMENT TO OUR HYPOCRISY
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