Mike,
Mike Duffy wrote:
> Ivan,
>
> Thx again for your guidance and support.
>
>
[snip]
>
> Like most startups, we are temporarily in a cash flow crunch, so
> spending the $6,350 to join the W3C is a few weeks away. Would it be
> possible to join the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group as an
> “invited expert” (http://www.w3.org/2004/08/invexp.html) or at least be
> able to join the private mailing list for the group?
>
There is no private mailing list for the group: the mailing lists, as
well as the meeting records, are public. However, the "invited expert"
position is a scarcely used resource that we reserve to exceptional
cases only, as the page you refer to describes...
Sincerely
Ivan
> We are definitely interested in helping this working group answer,
> “Questions such as how in practice to use OWL to achieve semantic
> integration across different agents, services, and applications; how to
> identify multiple versions of a vocabulary; how to manage the contents
> of the namespace document(s), and more.” The document, “First
> Principles of Good Practice for Managing RDF Schemas and OWL Ontologies
> Working Draft”, is also of great interest.
>
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