odrl exit criteria

After the discussion yesterday on normative/non-normative/at-risk terms in the ODRL Vocabulary, I looked at two recent examples:

1 - W3C Annotation Vocabulary: https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-vocab/
2 - W3C Activity Vocabulary: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/

Both are at CR stage and both include a long list of terms/concepts.

The Exit Criteria is key as it indicates how this CR will become a Proposed Rec.

The Annotation exit criteria: https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-vocab/#candidate-recommendation-exit-criteria
talks about the "validity of the vocabulary” - and to be valid, it lists six demonstrable points - mainly about the parsing the ontology for errors and consistency, but not specific about any term(s).

The Activity exit criteria: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/#exit-criteria
is a lot more detailed - right down to each term being specified in an implementation report.

We wil need an Exit Criteria for ODRL (soon) - so it might be best we draft this now - as that will give us the decision process as how we approach the normative/non-normative/at-risk-ness of our terms.   (and for the ODRL Information Model)


Renato Iannella, Monegraph
Co-Chair, W3C Permissions & Obligations Expression (POE) Working Group