- From: Adrian Walker <adrianw@snet.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:47:03 -0400
- To: Francois Bry <bry@ifi.lmu.de>
- Cc: public-rule-workshop-discuss@w3.org
Francois --
At 06:43 PM 4/18/2006 +0200, you wrote:
>Semantics requirement for RIF: In my opinion, a declarative semantics
>is needed
Agreed.
However, there is a problem. W3C folks seem to lean strongly towards open
world, whereas database (and most other) folks mostly use closed world and
negation as failure.
In OW, if Adrian is not in the list of people who work for W3C, you cannot
conclude that Adrian does not work for W3C. In CW you can.
Cheers,
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