- From: Wagner, G.R. <G.R.Wagner@tm.tue.nl>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:14:23 +0100
- To: "Jim Hendler" <hendler@cs.umd.edu>, "Dan Brickley" <danbri@w3.org>, <www-rdf-rules@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "Francois Bry (E-mail)" <Francois.Bry@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
> 3 - with due respect to the folks involved, I think the current Rules > charter is way too broad, and a WG started in that area would thrash > for a long time. I think we need activity to determine how to limit > such a charter to something doable, or find a more viable "de facto" > standard to build from -- as far as I can see we dn't have a > consensus in that area -- I would hope EU/DARPA/NSF or others might > host a forum in which such a consensus could emerge - I'd like to point out that the negotiations to establish the 4 year EU Network of Excellence REWERSE (= Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics) probably starting in March/April 2004 are at their final stage. It is an essential objective of this network to contribute to W3C's rule standardization efforts. It would be good if similar DARPA/NSF initiatives would be coordinated/synchronized with REWERSE. -Gerd --------------------------------------- Gerd Wagner http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/staff/gwagner/ Dep. Information & Technology Eindhoven University of Technology Email: G.Wagner@tm.tue.nl Phone: (+31 40) 247 26 17 Fax: (+31 40) 247 26 12
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