What is reification? (was Re: Issue rdfms-not-id-and-resource-attr)

>Brian:
>>  There must be a strong call from the community to make the change. 
>
>I suspect most of the members of the community who understand this issue
>are in the WG.
>
>Brian:
>>  We should resist the temptation to fix things that we don't like but are not
>>  really broken. 
>
>Agreed. This is really broken. Argued elsewhere.
>
>It acts as a significant barrier to the use of the RDF/XML reification
>syntax, and hence as a barrier to the use of reification. If reification
>is a good thing (which is moot, but I think we should assume) then this
>needs fixing.

Well, I wonder if before deciding one way or the other about the 
merits of reification, could we first decide what reification 
actually is? I thought I knew, but at the F2F the model theory I gave 
for reification (which I honestly thought was the blandest and least 
controversial interpretation one could wish for, and to directly 
follow the M&S) seemed to cause a firestorm.  We havn't discussed 
reification since then, but if we are going to start, then please 
lets first define what we are talking about.

Pat


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