Re: containers: primer material

At 11:38 AM 4/16/02 -0400, Frank Manola wrote:
>I certainly agree that we haven't clarified them!  Unfortunately,
>decisions not to formalize things, or not to clarify things, go against
>the general spirit of a Primer, the job of which *is* to clarify
>things.  What I'd like to do is clarify what things you can generally do
>with containers, and also either clarify what questions are undecided or
>unspecified, or (preferably) avoid getting into them.  However (also
>unfortunately), it's hard to avoid getting into bear traps if it's
>unclear where they are!

Unlike the formal specification, I don't think the primer needs to explore 
every nook and cranny, to describe every edge condition.  I would expect 
the primer to follow a kind of 80-20 rule:  to explain clearly how to use 
the 20% of RDF that achieves 80% of the desired results.  (Or substitute 
your own preferred non-zero values for 80 and 20.)

In this case, I think it's reasonable to recommend that only one of the 
container types be applied to any given resource, without being dogmatic 
about it.

#g


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Graham Klyne
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Received on Tuesday, 16 April 2002 12:16:50 UTC