Re: summarizing proposed changes to charter

+1

On 8/13/14, 12:49 PM, "Arthur Ryman" <ryman@ca.ibm.com> wrote:

>+1 to Eric's proposed resolutions
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>From:   "Eric Prud'hommeaux" <eric@w3.org>
>To:     public-rdf-shapes@w3.org,
>Cc:     Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@us.ibm.com>
>Date:   08/12/2014 08:56 PM
>Subject:        summarizing proposed changes to charter
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>
>Hi all, we can have a face-to-face at the W3C Technical Plenary in
>November if we can quickly endorse a good-enough charter.  As it
>stands now, it isn't clear that the group will be able to reach
>consensus within the Working Group, let alone get through the member
>review without objection.
>
>Please review the proposals that I've culled from the list.  I
>encournage compromise on all our parts and we'll have to suppress the
>desire to wordsmith. (Given the 3-month evaluation period,
>wordsmithing won't change much anyways.)
>
>
>separate semantics:
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>  "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> - Message-ID:
><53E2AFBD.9050102@gmail.com>
>    A syntax and semantics for shapes specifying how to construct shape
>expressions and how shape expressions are evaluated against RDF graphs.
>  "Dam, Jesse van" <jesse.vandam@wur.nl> - Message-ID:
><63CF398D7F09744BA51193F17F5252AB1FD60B24@SCOMP0936.wurnet.nl>
>    defining the the (direct) semantics meaning of shapes and defining
>the 
>associated validation process.
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>  opposition: Holger Knublauch
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>  proposed resolution: include, noting that if SPARQL is judged to be
>useful for the semantics, there's nothing preventing us from using it.
>
>
>make graph normalization optional or use-case specific:
>
>  "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> - Message-ID:
><53E2AFBD.9050102@gmail.com>
>    3 OPTIONAL A specification of how shape verification interacts with
>inference.
>  Jeremy J Carroll <jjc@syapse.com> - Message-Id:
><D954B744-05CD-4E5C-8FC2-C08A9A99BA9F@syapse.com>
>    the WG will consider whether it is necessary, practical or desireable
>to normalize a graph...
>    A graph normalization method, suitable for  the use cases determined
>by the group....
>  David Booth <david@dbooth.org> - Message-ID:
><53E28D07.9000804@dbooth.org>
>    OPTIONAL - A Recommendation for normalization/canonicalization of RDF
>graphs and RDF datasets that are serialized in N-Triples and N-Quads.
>opposition - don't do it at all:
>  "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> - Message-ID:
><53E3A4CB.4040200@gmail.com>
>    the WG should not be working on this.
>
>  proposed resolution: withdrawn, to go to new light-weight, focused WG,
>removing this text:
>  [[
>  The WG MAY produce a Recommendation for graph normalization.
>  ]]
>
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>mandatory human-facing language:
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>  "Dam, Jesse van" <jesse.vandam@wur.nl> - Message-ID:
><63CF398D7F09744BA51193F17F5252AB1FD60B24@SCOMP0936.wurnet.nl>
>    ShExC mandatory, but potentially as a Note.
>  David Booth <david@dbooth.org> - Message-ID:
><53E28D07.9000804@dbooth.org>
>    In Section 4 (Deliverables), change "OPTIONAL - Compact,
>human-readable syntax" to "Compact, human-readable syntax", i.e., make it
>required.
>  Jeremy J Carroll <jjc@syapse.com> - Message-Id:
><54AA894F-F4B4-4877-8806-EB85FB5A42E5@syapse.com>
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>  opposition - make it OPTIONAL
>  "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> - Message-ID:
><53E2AFBD.9050102@gmail.com>
>    OPTIONAL A compact, human-readable syntax for expressing shapes.
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>  proposed resolution: keep as OPTIONAL, not mentioning ShExC, but
>clarifying that it's different from the RDF syntax.
>
>
>report formats:
>  Dimitris Kontokostas <kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
>    provide flexible validation execution plans that range from:
>      Success / fail
>      Success / fail per constraint
>      Fails with error counts
>      Individual resources that fail per constraint
>      And enriched failed resources with annotations
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>  proposed resolution: no change, noting that no one seconded this
>proposal.
>
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>test suite/validator:
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>  Dimitris Kontokostas <kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
>    Validation results are very important for the progress of this WG and
>should be a standalone deliverable.
>  David Booth <david@dbooth.org> - Message-ID:
><53E28D07.9000804@dbooth.org>
>    Test Suite, to help ensure interoperability and correct
>implementation. The group will chose the location of this deliverable,
>such as a git repository.
>
>  proposed resolution: leave from charter as WGs usually choose to do
>this 
>anyways and it has no impact on IP commitments.
>
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