- From: Bill de hOra <bill@dehora.fsnet.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:10:03 -0000
- To: "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net>
- Cc: "RDF Interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
: Seth Russell: : : Well you've certainly said a mouthful here and unfortunately i only : understood about 5% of it. If you want to point out the 95% I'll be happy to clarify. : But let me ask about your basic assumptions: Do you : assume that you will : be able to query the entire semantic cloud and ever get a relevant : answer back? With the right assumptions Seth, I can expect anything. That doesn't make it so. But if you're asking me can I expect an answer to a query in reasonable time then probably not, unless the request got lucky. But I didn't just envisage queries as one-shot requests, I wanted to be able to place them in a tuple space and persist, similar to the way a production rule or event listener would work. A tuple space isn't really best thought of as a data store: it's more of a data structure that doesn't draw a hard line between data and behaviour. : Because if that is your assumption, and if you use the apparently : traditional data : processing approach you have scoped, may I extend my sympathies to : your programmers in advance. You've lost me here. : In my opinion, if that is our objective, we will need an almost : biological approach ... perhaps like the one I have scoped with SCM. : : :SCM :acronymOf "Sticky Cyber Molecules"; seeUrl : <http://robustai.net/MyNetwork/StickeyCyberMolecules.html>. You'd probably be interested in what Bill Joy has to say about composing the equivalent of multi-cellular life for distributed systems, essentially that data isn't sufficient (very much a snipe at XML and SOAP, but he has a point): <http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/02/13/joy.html> Bill de hOra
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