RE: A thought about requirements --> PRR from Gerd Wagner on 2006-05-31 (public-rif-wg@w3.org from May 2006)

From: Gerd Wagner <wagnerg@tu-cottbus.de>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:02:43 +0200
To: "'Vincent, Paul D'" <PaulVincent@fairisaac.com>
Cc: "'W3C RIF WG'" <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <000d01c684a1$beadf370$1ab2a8c0@informatik.tucottbus.de>

> RIF was given as an example of W3C creating standards
> out of thin air rather than standardising what was used 
> commercially. 

The W3C has a successful tradition of not just "standardising 
what was used commercially", but rather being ambitious to
trigger technological progress by standards that are more
general/generic/declarative than commercially established 
technologies. I think Xpath/XSLT/XQuery and XML Schema are 
good examples of this.

-Gerd

Received on Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:03:07 UTC