Re: [dxwg] Replace FOAF terms - Agent (#1367)

@makxdekkers I was reading it as a live document (it has this month's date in the footer), i.e. that it represents ongoing commitments, and wasn't sure you'd be happy being considered as a current representative of DC Ltd. Fine if is a frozen snapshot!

Regarding known change management, the FOAF spec makes a few points to set expectations:

* FOAF has been evolving gradually since its creation in mid-2000.
* There is a stable core of classes and properties that will not be changed, beyond modest adjustments to their documentation to track implementation feedback and emerging best practices.
* New terms may be added at any time (as with a natural-language dictionary), and consequently this specification is an evolving work.
* The FOAF RDF namespace URI, by contrast, is fixed and its identifier is not expected to change.
* The authors welcome comments on this document, preferably via the public FOAF developers list foaf-dev@lists.foaf-project.org; public archives are available. 
* A historical backlog of known technical issues is acknowledged, and available for discussion on the FOAF mailing list. Proposals for resolving these issues are welcomed, on foaf-dev.

In addition to this, the agreement with DCMI adds "and commits to make no semantic changes in the FOAF vocabulary without advance public notice of at least two weeks."

I don't believe anyone (including @tombaker) ever read this as requiring changes to FOAF to be agreed with Dublin Core (or vice-versa), it was more a collaboration to ensure that namespace documentation and URI/dns management concerns were addressed. For example Tom and I spoke a couple of weeks ago about the strengths and weaknesses of depending on the purl.org system.

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