- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:22:43 -0600
- To: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Re. ACTION 2003-03-14#11, I suggest we send these words to Ian: ----------- You made a last call comment [horrocks-01] captured in : http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/#horrocks-01 This comment gave rise to considerable discussion. While the WG is sympathetic to the need for semantically empty comments, to add a special syntax for them was considered too much of a change to RDF at this stage and possibly outside the WG charter. Also, the WG noted that applications can store such comments in an external RDF surface syntax (eg in XML). Concerning the proposal to render rdf:comment entailments inoperative (vacuously true) by semantic fiat, the WG notes that other users desire rdf:comment entailments to hold, so modifying the semantics to make all such entailments trivial would be controversial. Moreover, we note that OWL can impose such a condition within OWL-RDF as part of a semantic extension. After due consideration, therefore, the RDFCore WG has resolved to not accept this comment. ----- If the WG is happy with this, I could post it to rdf-comments immediately. Brian, your call. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes s.pam@ai.uwf.edu for spam
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