- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:38:23 +0000
- To: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>
- CC: Matthew Pocock <matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk>, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>, Owl Dev <public-owl-dev@w3.org>, Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, OWL Working Group WG <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Jim Hendler wrote: > <flame on - but not at Matthew> without wishing to fan Jim's flames, ... one aspect I noted at the F2F was that there is this decidability litmus test there is some wiggle room, and the actual drivers for what was a compelling argument and what wasn't had to do with the use cases and customers who we each had in mind. I found this was most noticeable when I talked about geometry. Obviously this was my *personal* interest rather than a business interest, so as HP rep, I am not going to push this. But any computational difficulties in using OWL to describe various geometric problems that I am interested in are basically irrelevant, in everybody's opinion (including mine), because geometrical reasoning (particularly the rather abstract problems that I like) is simply not a use case. (Fundamentally because mathematicians are poorer than bioscientists). So, as HP rep, I found the Oracle presentation compelling, much more compelling than most, because the Oracle customers and the HP customers are similar and doing similar things. However, none of the presentations were explicit in terms of customers, and we have made precious little advance on a use case and requirements document, so that the hidden differences between us (the various members of this WG) in terms of what we are trying to do with OWL, for whom, and why, remain hidden. I think, until we have made significant advance in Use Case and Requirements, Jim will continue to feel that the rest of the group have an agenda hidden from him, and is wanting to make decisions that don't make sense to him. Jeremy
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