- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 03:27:23 +0900
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, W3C OWL Working Group <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
So I had a look at what is said about Recommendations: "A W3C Recommendation is a specification or set of guidelines that, after extensive consensus-building, has received the endorsement of W3C Members and the Director. W3C recommends the wide deployment of its Recommendations. Note: W3C Recommendations are similar to the standards published by other organizations." I think the hangup is the part about "recommends the wide deployment". It is on this matter that the WG does not have consensus. We all agree that it is a specification that has undergone extensive consensus-building (at least within the WG), and that it is "similar to the standards published by other organizations". I think the consensus is that this is really important for Bijan and perhaps a few others and he has hopes of it becoming widely used, and that we committed the time to evaluating and reviewing and improving the document. I wonder whether it is the "recommends the wide deployment" aspect that our critics are complaining about. If so, I don't know how to effectively counter this. -Alan On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: > Ian, > > afaik you are the owner of 29/FH3. I guess it makes sense to include an > answer to > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Feb/0043.html > > too in the draft... > > Cheers > > Ivan > -- > > Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > mobile: +31-641044153 > PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html > FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf >
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