- From: Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:02:13 -0400
- To: Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com>
- CC: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Story Henry <henry.story@bblfish.net>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Garret Wilson wrote: > But this begs the same questions that no one seems to want to answer > (other than to say simply, "they are needed"): It seems to me a number of people in this thread have suggested the reasons are not entirely technical in nature, but also social (and perhaps even political). Not having been involved in any of this, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a fair bit of pressure from the W3C community to have a notion of datatype in RDF that could be more-or-less consistent with datatypes used in other W3C efforts (say, XML Schema and XQuery). Surely that would be a good enough reason, even if it might not be the best technical reason. Standards work is really hard, and it is so precisely because different people bring different assessments of quality and priority to the table. Bruce
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