- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:36:39 -0500
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
> >This really needs to be discussed in more detail and deconstructed. >Its full of nonsequiteurs and misunderstandings. The fact is that >the entire concept of URI is completely confused right now, and >nothing in any documentation put out by the W3C is enough to clarify >it. We can't just take it as a given, we have to have some >discussion of what it is supposed to mean. In particular, what is >"on the Web" ?? If a document has a URL and uses a referring >expression, is that expression on the web? Is the thing named by the >expression on the web? What does 'identified distinctly' mean, >exactly? None of this is clear, and getting it clear is one of the >most important jobs we could do. Pat - thanks for the many very valuable contributions you made today (glad you found the missing mail :->) On this one, however, I want to make a "Chair's statement" which is that while I personally agree with the fact that getting this right is crucial, and hope fervently that the W3C Technical Architecture Group is working the issue, I think we can RULE THIS OUT OF SCOPE for our working group - we can certainly state what version or document, or what assumptions about URIs we are making, but trying to solve this is well-beyond our charter and I want to make sure we don't spend too much time going in this direction... -JH -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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