Re: updated draft

good afternoon;

> On 2017-04-02, at 14:17, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 04/02/2017 03:40 AM, james anderson wrote:
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>>> On 2017-04-02, at 12:35, Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@topquadrant.com> wrote:
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>>> On 02/04/17 10:07, james anderson wrote:
>>>> i note, that it purports to "records community consensus”.
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>>> It also says at top "Draft Community Group Report" - it's the DRAFT text for any published version.
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>> that is why in my remark
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>>   however that consensus is to be established, i dissent from the current proposal.
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>> it says “is to be” and “current proposal"
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>> best regards, from berlin,
>> ---
>> james anderson | james@dydra.com | http://dydra.com
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> 
> Do you think that there is not even consensus  on the "problematic
> situations”?

correct.
i have maintained, from the start, that some of the purported issues follow from a misconception and are not entailed by the recommendation.

>  I changed the abstract so that it does not say that there is
> consensus on the solution.
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> Here is what I am seeing for the abstract.
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> Abstract
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> A number of issues with the SPARQL EXISTS feature have been identified. This
> document records community consensus within the SPARQL Maintenance (EXISTS)
> Community Group on problematic situations with respect to SPARQL EXISTS and
> contains two proposals for improvement, one that emphasizes maintaining some
> form of compatibility and one that emphasizes producing a simple solution that
> fits well into the rest of SPARQL.

that restatement better articulates an incremental process.
it does not change the view that some of the recorded issues are chimeric.
i continue to maintain, the only true issue is #1.

best regards, from berlin,

Received on Sunday, 2 April 2017 12:32:15 UTC