RE: D-AG0009; Semantic Web & Web architecture

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 5:53 PM
> To: michael.mahan@nokia.com
> Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: Re: D-AG0009; Semantic Web & Web architecture
> 

> I know that there's no chance of me winning this argument, 
> but I want to
> say that these two items are *not* separate; to enable machine
> automation in a Web architecture friendly manner necessarily requires
> the Semantic Web.

So, how should 9 relate to 11 then? I guess 11 is the Web as it is today, 9
relates to the abstract model of the Web promulgated by the W3C?  

Also, is "machine automation" part of our mission?  One can agree it's a
good thing, and certainly related to whatever we mean when we say that a web
service is about the web being processable by machines, not just humans.
But we don't want to set the bar too high: web services  enable hard-coded
programs to communicate via the web (much as they can with DCOM or CORBA
over LANs), whereas the semantic web is about enabling more flexible,
data-driven, and "intelligent" use of the data on the web, no?

Received on Friday, 8 March 2002 18:47:45 UTC