- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:58:05 +0000
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- CC: "Miles, AJ \(Alistair\)" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>, "Booth, David \(HP Software - Boston\)" <dbooth@hp.com>, Ben Adida <ben@mit.edu>, SWBPD list <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>, public-rdf-in-xhtml task force <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Pat Hayes wrote: > Well, yes, it is hard to argue with that. But if 10|6 websites, say, > already use webpage URIs to refer to their owners, and if the normative > semantic theories in the specifications do not prohibit this (as they do > not) and all the machinery that processes this information works (as it > does) why is it considered 'good practice' to set out to re-educate > everyone and to oblige them to to change? Seems to me it might be more > productive to take a more empirical and less judgmental stance, and ask > why and how this situation, which theory predicts should lead to > confusion, apparently does not lead to confusion. The TAG > recommendations seem to be based on an implicit theory of ambiguity and > communication. Projects like FOAF seem to me to be empirical refutations > of this theory. Big cheer from the sidelines ... Jeremy
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