- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:57:04 -0500
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
>I feel somewhat like the man who was asked if he was to be condemned >to be executed whether he would like scrambled eggs or pancakes for >breakfast before the execution. After he replied ``Pancakes, of >course'' he was told that then it would certainly be all right to >execute him. > >We are being asked to pick between two choices that are only on the >table because of various constraints imposed by not only XML and RDF >but by the members of the RDF Core Working Group. I have this >uneasy feeling that the results of the poll will then be used to >justify the constraints that are being discussed in the working >group. In this sort of situation it is only right to reject the >poll. Look, the WG is only trying to get feedback from as wide as possible a section of the user community in order to help it make a decision. It has tried to make the decision itself and has found itself deadlocked on which way to go. Under these circumstances, asking for wider feedback seems a reasonable way to proceed. I see no reason why you or anyone should feel uneasy at this decision being made in this way. A decision has to be made, one way or the other. Your response presumably means that you refuse to provide any input. I take it, therefore, that you will not complain when your views, whatever they happen to be, are not taken account of when the decision is made. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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