Re: lack of support for claims regarding Concise Bounded Descriptions

From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: lack of support for claims regarding Concise Bounded Descriptions
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 19:44:39 +0300

> On 6/5/05, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> > From the abstract of http://www.w3.org/Submission/2005/SUBM-CBD-20050603/
> > 
> >         This document [1] defines a concise bounded description of a
> >         resource in terms of an RDF graph, as a general and *broadly
> >         optimal* [emphasis added] unit of specific knowledge about that
> >         resource to be utilized by, and/or interchanged between, semantic
> >         web agents.
> >
> > The other uses of optimal in the document are:

[...]

> > I thus find nowhere in the document any support for the claim that concise
> > bounded descriptions are optimal, broadly or otherwise.
> 
> The claim is based on our direct experience. 
>
> Patrick

Where can I find information about your direct experience so that I can
investigate this support for your claim?  Why was such information or
pointers thereto not included in the document?

Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Bell Labs Research

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