Re: datatyping: local and global

Proposal F was my proposal, which at the first vote
was adopted by the WG by a narrow margin. Then 
DanC and Brian did their politiking, threw out the WG
vote, and held a re-vote where the present solution
was adopted, by as close a margin.

It hinges on a short trm/long term view. Even those
who would have preferred option F as better overall,
chose the other option since it had the lowest imediate
impact to their apps.

Patrick

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Subject:	datatyping: local and global
Sender:	ext Art.Barstow@nokia.com <Art.Barstow@nokia.com>
Date:		Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:30:08 +0100


In Mike Dean's formal objection to the Datatyping Solution proposed
in the Jan 23 LC WD docs [1], one of the alternate proposals he
suggests is:

[[
an RDF datatyping approach that includes global
datatyping (as in Proposal F from [4]) possibly with
optional local datatyping
]]

Did the RDF Core WG consider such an option (to support both local
and global datatyping)?  If so, why was it rejected?

Regards,

Art Barstow
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[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Jan/0173.html