- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 15:17:28 +0100 (BST)
- To: patrick hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
I haven't been following e-mail this week, and so I pick up the thread. I haven't yet read the content pages (the actual proposal). I am procedurally uncomfortable. I suspect I almost certainly agree with the proposal, but I oppose it nevertheless. While our charter makes noises about RDF being the foundation of the SW, it is clear that there is not yet any consensus in the SW community about layering. If we determine that we are required by our charter to forge that consensus then we will need to get buy-in not only from the DL community (who we believe may be relunctant) but also from the rules and trust community; who as far as I can tell are not even committed to the open world assumption. Pat and Guha's proposal is ambitious and worthy of discussion but RDF Core is the wrong forum. The discussion should take a year or so not a matter of days. We should, IMO, indicate our worries about the non-monotonicity of dark triples back to webont; we should indicate that we have a new proposal for an axiomatic treatment, and listen. I don't believe either wg is the right forum for the layering debate. I think it is important to involve people who are in neither group. See you all soon. Jeremy
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