[LC response] To Roman Kontchakov & Michael Zakharyaschev- LC comment on OWL 2 QL

Dear Roman and Michael,

Thank you for your comment
      <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Jan/0019.html 
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on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.

Your comment is closely related to the one by Maurizio (see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Jan/0014.html) 
  and Ivan (see http://www.w3.org/mid/49881F19.7040209@w3.org).

The working group has decided to implement the editorial changes and  
will correct the typos, thanks for pointing them out. We have also  
decided to add to OWL 2 QL reflexive, irreflexive, & asymmetric  
property axioms. Moreover, we have fixed the inaccuracies in the  
complexity table, following your suggestions and discussions with  
Maurizio: for data complexity, we have added that OWL 2 QL is in AC_0,  
i.e., queries are first order rewritable and that the taxonomic  
complexity is NLogSpace-complete.

Finally, we have decided *not* to add sameAs to OWL 2 QL, but to add a  
paragraph that explains that, if one wants to handle ontologies that  
are OWL 2 QL plus sameAs, then one can use a preprocessing step that  
materializes the sameAs relation and uses it in query answering  
procedures to simulate individual equality reasoning (see http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Profiles#Feature_Overview_2) 
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Regards,
Uli Sattler
on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group 

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