- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:49:39 -0500
- To: "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>, "Bijan Parsia" <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>, public-owl-dev@w3.org
Danny Ayers wrote: >I personally have doubts about the wisdom of making a significant >increment to OWL at this point in time because of potential impact on >the adoption of RDF and OWL, but am happy to defer to Kendall, Bijan >and co. on the point that there is real demand for certain features. I think he said that much better than I did! I think simplification is needed before pushing new functionality - I've said that many times, but then I spent two years saying it to the WG and failed there as well :-) Seriously, I have no object to new design work going on, but I think I'd be happier if Googling "-xxxxxxx filetype:owl" returned more hits before we began extending... -JH -- Prof James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Dept of Computer Science http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler AV Williams Bldg 301-405-2696 (work) Univ of Maryland 301-405-6707 (Fax) College Park, MD 20853 USA
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