Re: Policy to deal with ultra-late-in-the-process comments? [FW: OWL Primer]

Hi Michael,

first of all, we have an obligation to respond to the commenter until
the Recommendations are published. Even if our answer is 'sorry, no'.

The rule of thumb should be whether any change on the document would be
substantial invalidating, for example, any implementation. Obviously,
such substantial changes should be politely rejected, essentially saying
'your time is up':-) (Except if there are really really clear bugs
revealed by the comments!) That boils down to accept only editorial
changes, in fact.

Cheers

Ivan


Michael Schneider wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> How do we deal with these kinds of requests from now on? I would think that
> we will generally reject them as being too late. The only exception should
> be the correction of obvious bugs, such as typos, etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> From: public-owl-comments-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-owl-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Luigi Selmi
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:54 AM
> To: public-owl-comments@w3.org
> Subject: OWL Primer
> 
> Hi All,
> as a reader of the primer and not as a master of OWL I woul suggest some
> minor changes in order to make the document more understandable: 
> 
> 1) paragraph 4.2 
> where is written :<Besides this, it is also reflexive, meaning that every
> class is its own subclass – this is intuitive as well since clearly, every
> person is a person etc.. >
> i would eliminate "this is intuitive as well since clearly, every person is
> a person etc" since it could be confusing rather than illustrative
> 
> 2) paragraph 4.4 
> where is written: <names might be constructions with “of” or with “has”
> (wifeOf or hasWife). For verbs (like “to love”) an inflected form (loves) or
> a passive version with “by” (lovedBy) would prevent unintended readings. >
> property label constructed appending prepositions like in wifeOf or lovedBy
> is questionable. It doesn't avoid the possibility of a mistake. See for
> example the OWL/XML Syntax of the wife relationship between Bill and Mary.
> What about using Andrea instead of Bill. Who is the wife ?. A modeler that
> needs to state that two persons are in
> a "wife" relationship probably creates two disjoint classes, Man and Woman
> with the first class as the domain and the second its range so avoiding all
> possible confusion.
> See for example what TBL write about this issue here 
> 
> 3) paragraph 5.2 
> Maybe can be added the line <Natural language indicators for the usage of
> existential quantification are words like "one" or “some” > 
> 
> 6) paragrafo 6.1 
> where is written: <it is also possible to indicate that the inverse of a
> given property is functional >
> maybe it means "it is also possible to indicate that the inverse of a given
> functional property is functional too"
> 
> Regards
> 
> Luigi Selmi
> 
> 
> "It is easy to be certain. One only has to be sufficiently vague" - C.S.
> Peirce
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