phrasing suggestion for RIF core document

I was looking at the draft at:
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/core/draft-20070323.html

The first paragraph of the first section (RIF Overview) currently says:

Based on the RIF Use Cases and Requirements, this document develops the
RIF Core through a set of foundational concepts shared by all RIF
dialects. The overall RIF design takes the form of a layered
architecture organized around the notion of a dialect.


I would suggest replacing this with:

Based on the RIF Use Cases and Requirements, this document develops a
framework consisting of a generic set of foundational concepts shared by
all RIF dialects. The overall RIF design takes the form of a layered
architecture organized around the notion of a dialect. The foundational
concepts presented in this document will be sufficient for the
specification of the RIF Core dialect.


The last paragraph of the Overview section currently says:

The current document is a first draft of the RIF Core specification. A
number of extensions are planned to support frame-based syntax,
built-ins, additional primitive XML data types, the notions of
compliance with RIF, and so on. Tool support for RIF Core is
forthcoming. Additional RIF dialects, which extend the Core, will be
specified in other documents by this working group.


I would suggest replacing this with:

The current document is a first draft of the RIF framework, sufficient
for the specification of RIF Core, which will be presented in the next
version of this document. A number of extensions are planned to support
frame-based syntax, built-ins, additional primitive XML data types, the
notions of compliance with RIF, and so on. Tool support for RIF Core is
forthcoming. Additional RIF dialects, which extend the Core, will be
specified in other documents by this working group.


I am not really sure whether it is feasible to include this updated text
in the document, because it might be contentious.  I fear that some
people in the working group think that this working draft does (or
should) present the Core dialect.

Best, Jos

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Received on Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:21:45 UTC