- From: Danny Ayers <danny@panlanka.net>
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:36:11 +0600
- To: "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net>
- Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
<- >What is your problem with that kind of politics? It seems to <- me that we got <- >too many cooks mucking with the soup. We got CG, and KIF, and CycL and <- >lord know what other KR systems floating around. It makes my <- head spin ! <- <- My dear fellow, you have hardly started. But if you want to legislate <- the world so that there is only one KR langauge or reasoning engine, <- then I would actively oppose that on political grounds, yes. That is <- like saying that we should all eat one standard food, and who needs <- fish? I think the role of RDF with all the different KR representations is as a common interface - the argument that this only needs 2n kinds of converters rather that the n^2 required to get all the languages/representations talking to each other directly. A common interface that is processible using existing web technologies would presumably have some additional benefits... Of course inferences could be made on RDF directly, but I don't think inference engine construction should be led by the RDF specs, rather the other way around.
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