- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:49:40 +0100
- To: public-grddl-comments@w3.org
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
On Aug 26, 2008, at 5:02 AM, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote: >> From: Bijan Parsia >> [ . . . ] >> Encouraging people to dereference (or to >> write software that dereferences) things like namespaces has turned >> out not to be such a great idea and, arguably, isn't necessary or >> helpful. > > I completely disagree. Oi! Are you and Danny completely not paying attention? I didn't reply to set up a debate but to correct a misimpression, to wit, that the "RDF community" has consensus on the GRDDL design. So, all this other stuff is just *irrelevant*. > Dereferencing things like namespaces may not be useful or helpful > to *you*, but that does not mean it is not useful or helpful to > others. Esp. when it is of this low quality. I didn't say it was not useful or helpful to *ME*, I said it was not, on balance, useful and helpful to encourage people to do this, esp. systematically. Lack of utility to me, or utility to *SOMEONE*, doesn't even start to refute this point of view. I suspect we should stop CCing Ian (or just stop). Cheers, Bijan.
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