- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:36:18 -0500
- To: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
..... > >Thus, the problem of "05" =? "5" =? "5.0" etc. can be addressed >from several directions, and the final solution can be based >on several cooperating mechanisms: URI schemes, RDFS, DAML, >localhost services, etc. That sounds nice, but its actually very complicated. The trouble with this perspective is that while it allows each mechanism to make its own contribution, as it were, it also obliges all the mechanisms to be alert for, and to be able to handle appropriately, any contributions any of the others might make. It forces them to be in a committee which has to meet every time any one of them has anything to say about what might be equal to what. It would be better, in practice, if this issue could be organized into distinct parts and these then farmed out to distinct mechanisms or layers to deal with alone. That would be more work for us human committee members, but it would be a lot easier on the software agents that have to use the resulting standards. Pat Hayes -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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