- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:05:20 +0100
- To: fmanola@mitre.org
- Cc: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
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 ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
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