Hi Henry --

To take just one point from your excellent posting...

At 09:31 AM 3/29/2006 +0200, you wrote:
All that is needed now is rules and quantification (which N3 [1] 
provides)

Actually, one can argue that this falls well short of what's needed.  Please see
Understandability and Semantic Interoperability of Diverse Rules Systems
www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/paper/19

Apologies if you have seen this before.

                        Cheers,  -- Adrian

Internet Business Logic (R)
Executable open vocabulary English
Online at www.reengineeringllc.com
Shared use is free

Adrian Walker
Reengineering
PO Box 1412
Bristol
CT 06011-1412 USA

Phone: USA 860 583 9677
Cell:    USA  860 830 2085
Fax:    USA  860 314 1029