- From: Christopher Welty <welty@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:11:47 -0500
- To: public-rif-wg@w3.org
OK - let's put this discussion to rest. We (the chairs) have heard the issue and we take it seriously. I am personally pretty skeptical about wikis myself, but I am willing to give it a chance and see if there is a natural and productive place for it to fit. We will base final decisions on what happens not on suspicions or predictions. I completely agree that we need the email trail for most discussions, due mainly to its relative immutability (for better or worse!). This is one of those things that is both a curse and a blessing with wikis. The blessing, btw (since it hasn't been mentioned) among other things is that for collaborative authorship wikis have a (automatic) change tracking mechanism, which for collaborative HTML authoring is a real nightmare. But again, we will try to find if there is a way we can make it work for us, as opposed to trying to "shoehorn" everything in. -Chris Dr. Christopher A. Welty, Knowledge Structures Group IBM Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Dr., Hawthorne, NY 10532 Voice: +1 914.784.7055, IBM T/L: 863.7055, Fax: +1 914.784.7455 Email: welty@watson.ibm.com Web: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/
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