RE: Formal Objections: [was Re: regrets for 2003-01-17]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Brian McBride [mailto:bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com]
> Sent: 20 January, 2003 15:21
> To: Stickler Patrick (NMP/Tampere); connolly@w3.org
> Cc: me@aaronsw.com; w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Formal Objections: [was Re: regrets for 2003-01-17]
> 
> 
> At 08:47 20/01/2003 +0200, Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote:
> 
> > > Likewise, I'm sure Patrick stated his objections on
> > > behalf of Nokia, and I believe they're part of the WG
> > > proceedings, though I'm not sure which part could
> > > serve as a succinct statment of his position; perhaps
> > > he'd like to nominate or write something.
> >
> >C.f.
> >
> >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Sep/0160.html
> >
> >Though note that after a significant amount of internal discussion
> >and debate, we decided not to formally oppose the present
> >solution, and the chair was notified of that. Though there
> >remains a strong degree of dissatisfaction in certain aspects of
> >it (namely the tidy treatment of untyped literals resulting
> >in the need to recode large amounts of existing content and
> >the lack of a mechanism for implicit datatyping).
> 
> Patrick,
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.  If I read that correctly, you 
> are saying 
> that Nokia has NOT raised a formal objection to the 
> datatyping solution 
> adopted and therefore I am currently planning not to 
> reference the message 
> identified above.  

Agreed.

> I do think it would be appropriate to 
> encourage feedback 
> on the datatyping solution in particular, as it has caused 
> the WG most 
> difficulty.

Please do.

Patrick

Received on Monday, 20 January 2003 08:44:22 UTC