Guide: History clarification questions

I am trying to resolve the various history comments.  Once that is done we
can decide whether the section is worth including.  Since I am late to this
history, I suggest those who disagree decide who is the more authoritative
voice.

- Mike

1. OIL ancestor clarification

a. Hendler - "SHOE and Ontobroker were direct contributors to DAML and OIL
respectively."

b. Horrocks = "OIL was NOT based on Ontobroker - it was based on a
combination of
description logic theory and frame syntax, with the latter heavily
influenced by XOL, an XML serialisation of the OKBC Lite knowledge
model."

If b is correct, I need an OKBC Lite citation.

2. MCF as predecessor to RDF

I have the following from Dan Brickley.  Can someone craft the sentence that
describes the MCF contribution to RDF?

> If you do keep a history section, please do acknowledge MCF's 
> role in all this.
> 
> Netscape's submission in 1997:
> 	http://www.w3.org/Submission/1997/8/
> 
> 	http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-MCF-XML/
> 	R.V. Guha (Netscape Communications) <guha@netscape.com>
> 	Tim Bray (Textuality) <tbray@textuality.com>
> 
> preceded by Guha's MCF white page from 1996 while at Apple,
> now online at http://www.guha.com/mcf/wp.html with the old spec
> at http://www.guha.com/mcf/mcf_spec.html

- Mike

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