Re: Replace outdated social models in OWL2 primer

On Friday, 21 March 2025 21:37:36 (+01:00), Melvin Carvalho wrote:


pá 21. 3. 2025 v 19:49 odesílatel Chaals Nevile <chaals@fastmail.fm <mailto:chaals@fastmail.fm> > napsal:


My inner W3C process nerd* believes that either way these are clearly "class 2" editorial changes (in that they do not impact in any way the interpretation or implementation of the specification), and can be made as a Revised Recommendation on the authority of the Team in the absence of a Working Group.



Obviously, there’s disagreement, which means this isn’t Class 2. Examples don’t just shape interpretation; they also shape implementation, especially as LLMs increasingly learn from W3C docs.  


Maybe not obviously, but importantly, the current disagreement is about something that doesn't exist, so it can only be based on ideas of what it might be. And I certainly fell into the trap of equating that with reality, since I have some actually quite vague ideas about possible changes that might make sense and get support, and then wrote about them as if they were more real than a glimmer in my mind's eye.


Neither "There is no possible pathway to change the examples in a spec and call that editorial" nor "we can make whatever changes we want to the examples" seems grounded in W3C custom, practice or process.


I think we're at the stage where it's useful to test what sort of consensus concrete proposals can get. Which means the next fruitful step is to have such proposals - although discussion about what people think they should or shouldn't be might help those who do the work of creating them.


cheers


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