Re: Replace outdated social models in OWL2 primer

so 22. 3. 2025 v 11:55 odesílatel Chaals Nevile <chaals@fastmail.fm> napsal:

> On Friday, 21 March 2025 21:37:36 (+01:00), Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> pá 21. 3. 2025 v 19:49 odesílatel Chaals Nevile <chaals@fastmail.fm>
> napsal:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
>

Thanks, Chaals. While it's true that no concrete changes have been proposed
yet, the disagreement isn't about a specific patch—it's about the
classification of such changes and the process they must go through. W3C
policy is clear: if there's any doubt or disagreement about whether
something impacts interpretation, it's not Class 2.


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> cheers
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