- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 10:42:54 +0000
- To: "Butler, Mark" <Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "'www-rdf-comments@w3.org'" <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Java Community Process JSR #188 Expert List'" <JSR-188-EG@JCP.ORG>, "'w3c-ccpp-wg@w3.org'" <w3c-ccpp-wg@w3.org>, WAP-UAPROF@MAIL.OPENMOBILEALLIANCE.ORG
Just changing the subject line to keep our process in order. Brian At 14:46 18/02/2003 +0000, Butler, Mark wrote: >Dear Colleagues: > >JSR-188, the Java Specification Request for CC/PP processing, >http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=188 >has examined the RDF last call working drafts published on the 23rd of >January 2003. First, we commend the RDF WG for excellent work, and >congratulate you on bringing your REC to last call. However we would like to >raise an issue with the documents, concerning the adoption of local >datatyping. Here we use the term "local datatyping" and "global datatyping" >as proposed by Mike Dean >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Jan/0173.html > >We agree with Mike's comments. Specifically the JSR-188 Expert Group would >like to suggest that CC/PP definitely need "global" datatyping not "local" >datatyping. As CC/PP is based on RDF, this means that RDF should provide >some mechanism for global data typing. Adopting local datatyping will make >CC/PP profiles unnecessarily verbose using up valuable network bandwidth. As >one early adopter of CC/PP is UAProf which is aimed at wireless phone >networks, profile verbosity is of a particular concern. In addition as Mike >notes local datatyping also increases the potential for inconsistencies, >which we found to be a considerable problem in the deployment of CC/PP and >UAProf. > >Furthermore, we anticipate that local datatyping, which is clearly the wrong >choice for CC/PP, will also be the wrong choice for other applications of >RDF which require either >1. require RDF/XML to be entered by hand, due to the increased risk of >inconsistencies or >2. for RDF/XML documents to be exchanged within protocols, due to increased >document verbosity. > >Therefore we would like to raise the issue that we think the RDF core >working group should reconsider its position on datatyping. > >Mark Butler, Hewlett Packard >Luu Tran, Sun Microsystems >Andreas Schade, IBM >Jason Williams >Reto Hermann, IBM >Rotan Hanrahan >Stan Wiechers >Steve Geach, Elata plc
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