Re: [RIF] Extensible Design from Michael Kifer on 2006-05-04 (public-rif-wg@w3.org from May 2006)

From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 14:48:24 -0400
To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@inf.unibz.it>
Cc: sandro@w3.org, public-rif-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <5439.1146768504@kiferdesk>

> Well, it seems to me that the proposal by Boley et al advocates precisely
> this view.  My reading of the proposal is that several (perhaps many) RIF
> dialects will share the same syntax (or very similar syntaxes) for
> conditions but will diverge on semantics.
> 

Precisely. Semantics will be attached to dialects. There will be no grand
unified semantics. The idea is to design RIF with as much synergy between
its different parts as we can manage.


	--michael

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