Re: comments on Editor's Draft of UCR

Dave Reynolds wrote:
> Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> My understanding of the two different requirements was that one was:
>>> - "Alignement with widely deployed standards", which includes XML, 
>>> but not RDF at this stage; and which may include non-W3C standards. 
>>> That CSF is certainly related to the goal of widespread adoption. It 
>>> is not necessarily related to the goal of W3C consistency, but it 
>>> might be considered as supporting it;
>>
>> Why should this not include RDF?  Isn't RDF a "widely-deployed 
>> standard"?  
> 
> +1
> 
> XML is no doubt more widely adopted than RDF

Yes, although this is only incidental to the point I wanted to make, 
which is that there are two different CSF, one being alignement with 
relevant standards, whether or not they are semantic web standards, W3C 
standards or whatever; and the other one being alignement with the 
Semantic Web (which includes alignement with the semantic Web standards).

The CSF of alignement with the relevant standards supports the goal of 
widespread adoption, especially so if the said relevant standards are 
widely adopted themselves; but it does not necessarily support W3C 
consistency, because the relevant standards are not necessarily W3C 
standards. On the other hand, the CSF of SemWeb alignement certainly 
supports the goal of W3C consistency, whereas how much it supports the 
goal of widespread adoption is dependent on SemWeb adoption.

I never meant to imply that RDF was not a key W3C standard or anything 
like that (actually, I did not even think that this could be read in 
what I wrote :-)

> but this separation of 
> "supports" links is not appropriate and was not discussed in those terms 
> at the f2f.

We did not discuss CSF and how they relate to goals and requirements at 
the F2F. We agreed on 2 goals and on a number of requirements, but CSF 
were discussed only incidentally.

If the alignement CSF and how they link are the only one that appear 
problementic at this stage, maybe we could decide and settle that during 
the telecon (Peter will not be there, though).


Christian

Received on Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:51:06 UTC