Re: My UCR action on merging two CSFs

Hi Dave,
>
> Hi Paula,
>
>> I completed the following action regarding the UCR text:
>>
>> Merge the CSFs 'Alignment with widely deployed standards' and 
>> 'Alignment with Semantic Web' into one CSF 'Alignment with key W3C 
>> specifications'. 
>
> Sorry to be picky but this has kept the old phrasing of the "align 
> with semantic web" CSF which I've already commented on.
>
> Instead of:
>
> "RIF should fit well with existing, key W3C specifications such as 
> XML. Being part of W3C's Semantic Web Activity, the work on RIF should 
> consider Semantic Web technologies for exchanging rule sets between 
> Semantic Web-based rule systems (e.g. which work on RDF or OWL data)."
>
> How about:
>
> "RIF should fit well with existing, key W3C specifications such as 
> XML. In particular, it should align well with the semantic web 
> standards for exchange of data (RDF, SPARQL) and ontologies (OWL). "
>
> ?
I know that the current text under the new CSF is not really the perfect 
one and I am happy to get proposals that fit better under this CSF, but 
I have some comments on your proposal: The problem I have with this is 
that RDF and SPARQL are not really sw standards for exchange of data. 
Moreover, I don't think we should explicitly mention SPARQL here since 
we don't yet know how SPARQL fits into RIF.

How about a slightly modified version of your text:

"RIF should fit well with existing, key W3C specifications such as XML. 
In particular, it should align well with the Semantic Web standards such 
as resource descriptions (RDF) and ontologies (OWL). "

?
>
> It should also link to the new "XML Syntax" requirement:
> http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/UCR/Requirements#req-xml-syntax
>
>
I forgot this one, thanks!

Regards,
Paula