- From: Dieter Fensel <dieter.fensel@deri.org>
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:19:29 +0100
- To: Uli Sattler <Ulrike.Sattler@manchester.ac.uk>,public-rif-wg@w3.org
At 18:07 08.02.2006 +0000, Uli Sattler wrote: >On 8 Feb 2006, at 15:27, Ed Barkmeyer wrote: > >> > >[snippp] > >> >>>>2. RIF could allow for rules the processing of which goes beyond >>>>what currently is widespread. Eg rules with disjunctive conclusions. >>>I agree >> >>Here, milady, we part company. I could agree with the example, but >>not with the principle that Francois expresses. I agree with >>Dieter that we should not go out of our way to support >>expressiveness that is beyond the power of available tools to work >>with. We will have enough on our plate to deal with commercial >>rules engine expressiveness, SWRL, OWL and RDF. We should leave >>the next generation of Ph.D. research to the universities. > >I see your point, and I didn't mean anything for which we would need >to "go out of our way", at least not very far --- as others pointed >out, however, it would be a pity if we would restrict ourselves to >what is "widely used in commercial systems now" and would not leave >room for further development, in case (!) that this restriction could >be easily overcome. Indeed, but for this the charter defined a layered and stepwise process. Not to exclude but to take the long journey step by step. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dieter Fensel, http://www.deri.org/ Tel.: +43-512-5076485/8 Skype: dieterfensel
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