- From: R.V.Guha <guha@guha.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:07:11 -0700
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- CC: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, patrick hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Dan, I would like to answer the "why now" question. The reason is *very* simple: we have a problem. RDF is intended to be the foundation for languages of the semantic web, and yet, it has been found that even a comparatively simple thing like OWL can't be built on this foundation. Wait till you try to layer thing like DAML-S on top of RDF. Heck, we don't even know what it means to layer ... At this point, all it means is that OWL or someone else does their own model theory and all that layering means is that it is not inconsistent with the RDF model theory. Fine bit of good that does a machine trying to combine expressions in different languages. guha Dan Brickley wrote: > Which brings us back to the >hours-in-the-day and 'why now' problem... ></angst> > >
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