- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:58:37 -0500
- To: drew.mcdermott@yale.edu
- Cc: public-sws-ig@w3.org
On Mar 18, 2006, at 10:43 PM, Drew McDermott wrote: >>> [me] >>> If you've been following the recent debate about the prospects for >>> extending WSDL (but not standing too close, I hope), you can see that >>> a key issue is how to build on what already exists in getting to a >>> "semantic" web. For some people the slightest departure from the >>> current WSDL path ordained by Microsoft and IBM is suicide (even if >>> we >>> don't know what the path is yet!). > >> [Bijan Parsia] > >> Who are these people? I mean, where has this been articulated? > > I'm alluding to this message from Roger Cutler on Mar 16 -- > >> I assume it has not escaped your notice that Microsoft is not >> playing in this Semantic Web space at all. What does this mean? >> I'm not really sure, but one thing it means to me is that I think >> you don't have five years to come up with something deployable. I >> know that Microsoft is quite capable of making abrupt U-turns and >> picking up on things in a big way, but I don't think that they are >> very likely to do so unless it's something with quantifiable value >> that can be deployed immediately. Why should you care? Well, I >> suspect that if Microsoft does NOT make such a U-turn that they are >> perfectly capable of putting something into the market within the >> next few years that will seriously blindside the Semantic Web >> efforts. > > I don't mean to disparage this point of view at all. Except that I don't see your rephrasing as accurate. Earlier in the message, he basically says, "Don't reinvent WSDL, even if you can make substantive improvements. *Build* on WSDL; add *extra* functionality". Here, he's not saying *follow* Microsoft, but hurry up and get something concrete while MS isn't into this space. > Roger's message > makes me want to drop what I'm doing and go take a .NET certification > course! Well, then, continue in your misreading! > It'll probably position me better for future participation in > SOA development than working on OWL-S. :) And you won't have to work on polishing your OWL DL verification skills :) Cheers, Bijan.
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