- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:51:50 -0700
- To: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>, <msabin@interx.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> couple of points I must take issue with. The main issue for me is the > underlying assumption that a semantic web needs the explicit assertion of > metadata by content providers for it to work. A related issue, IMHO, is This is exactly opposite to what the semantic web is about. A content provider putting assertions inside his own content is a closed system. We want 5,000 different people to be able to make assertions about http://www.microsoft.com, without needing the cooperation of Microsoft or any other central authority. They should be able to make these assertions even if http://www.microsoft.com happens to be unavailable. I think Sean's example did a fine job of explaining the problem.
Received on Tuesday, 23 April 2002 13:55:18 UTC