Re: How core is Core? from Michael Kifer on 2007-07-03 (public-rif-wg@w3.org from July 2007)

From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:25:14 -0400
To: Dave Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, public-rif-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <9760.1183476314@cs.sunysb.edu>

> An alternative is to say that Core is not core it is just a starting 
> point for dialect design and concrete dialects will pick and choose from 
> Core as appropriate. That's what I understood to be MichaelK's position.

Yes. I think it would be hard, if not impossible, to have a useful core
that everybody would be required to implement. With this requirement, we
would either have to come up with something uninteresting or with something
that only a few will implement.


	--michael

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