Re: Draft Response for LC Comment 22 MSM1

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Ivan

Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> [Draft Response for LC Comment 22:] MSM1
> 
> Dear Scott,
> 
> Thank you for your message
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Jan/0027.html>
> on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.
> 
> Thank you for your support of new features in OWL 2.
> 
> The OWL WG acknowledges that there are applications where one would like
> to use OWL and RIF.  However, the needs of a representation language
> have driven the OWL WG to make certain choices in which datatypes are in
> OWL 2.  The OWL WG has tried to support a large collection of datatypes,
> which may be larger than that supported by RIF.  Applications that want
> to use both OWL and RIF can restrict themselves to those datatypes that
> ate supported by both OWL and RIF.
> 
> The OWL WG had wanted to have a single base type for its numeric types,
> namely owl:realPlus.  Several comments, yours included, as well as
> implementation experience have resulted in the OWL WG moving to align
> with XML Schema, and thus RIF, so that in OWL 2 xsd:decimal, xsd:float,
> and xsd:double now have pairwise disjoint value spaces.  As a result of
> this change the need for owl:realPlus has disappeared and it has been
> removed from OWL 2.  Several OWL 2 documents have been or are being
> modified to effect these changes.
> 
> The OWL WG has realized that an overview document would be useful and to
> that end has produced the Document Overview, with working draft
> available at http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Document_Overview
> 
> The New Features and Rationale document has gone through a number of
> significant edits recently.  The OWL WG hopes that its current version
> is more attuned to your needs.  You will, of course, have a chance to
> make formal comments on this document when it reaches last-call status.
> 
> 
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> 
> Regards,
> Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group 
> 

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