Re: [RIF] [UCR]: What is the RIF (revisited)

Dieter Fensel wrote:

>>>By the way, this applies as well of many W3C recomm endations, as the
>>>following examples show:
>>>
>>>a. the XPath processors developped in industry are all hardly usable
>>>because they are exponential. Academic researtc h has recentlly shown
>>>that polynomial evaluation is possible.
>>>
>>>b. implementing XQuery still is the subject of academic research and far
>>>way from being solved.
>>>
>>>c. RDF bnodes are a serious challenge for efficient reasoning which, to
>>>the best of my knowledge, is far from being solved.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
>Indeed, this is something very stupid about RDF. Why is this a recommendation
>to repeat similar mistakes for RIF?
>  
>
It is not. It ius a correction of the incorrected statement that W3C 
recommendation only refer to perflectly worked out technologies someone 
made.

-- 
Francois

Received on Friday, 10 February 2006 08:11:07 UTC