RE: namespaceDocument-8: What should a "namespace document" look like?

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 14:21 +0000, Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)
wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>  
> wrt our meeting of 21st Feb which you reference, we ran out of time
> before getting to that agendum.
>  
> However, we picked up the discussion at our Vancouver F2F [a].
> Roughly, the draft finding that Henry has been working[b] on of late
> was 'teetering' on the brink of achieving concensus - when I took
> re-expressed discomfort with the direction of th 'purpose' arrow in
> the models shown in in the diagrams. 

It's not teetering on the brink; it's resolved:

"PROPOSED: to address editorial comments, e.g. purpose label, skw's
comments on rddl informal ontology capturing, and publish as a TAG
finding

RESOLVED to do as proposed."
 -- http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2008/02/27-minutes#item05

>  
> To explain:
> A rough reading of the diagram is that a given 'namespace' has some
> 'purpose relation' (could be validation or... some other purpose
> oriented property) to some other resource. I suggested that it wasn't
> really the namespace that has a purpose, rather a RDDL directory
> entry (the first D in RDDL standing for Directory after-all)  - and
> went further to assert that a RDDL document was a document of such
> entries  Entry(<namespace>, <nature>, <purpose>, <relatedResource>).
> ie that we were struggling to express single n-ary relation in binary
> predicates.
>  
> The discussion concluded with the assignment of two further action
> items [c,d].
>  
> [d] in particular is intended to address my comments, though I have
> also said that having put my comment on the record, I would not stand
> in the way of the TAG accepting the document as is (though that went
> unrecorded).
>  
> I hope that helps,
>  
> Stuart
> --
> [a] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2008/02/27-minutes#item05
> [b] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/nsDocuments-2007-11-13/
> [c] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/actions/114
> [d] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/actions/115  
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>         
>         ______________________________________________________________
>         From: Paul Cotton [mailto:Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com] 
>         Sent: 12 April 2008 21:37
>         To: Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM; ht@inf.ed.ac.uk; Stuart Williams
>         (skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
>         Cc: www-tag@w3.org
>         Subject: RE: namespaceDocument-8: What should a "namespace
>         document" look like?
>         
>         
>         
>         What is the status of the TAG’s work on the
>         namespaceDocument-8 issue [1]?
>         
>          
>         
>         In particular what is the status of the draft finding entitled
>         “Associating Resources with Namespaces” found at [2] which is
>         dated Nov 2007.
>         
>          
>         
>         I looked through back agendas and minutes before sending this
>         message.  My search found a reference to the issue in the
>         agenda for the TAG meeting on Feb 21, 2008 [3] but nothing
>         appears about the issue in that meeting’s minutes [4].  I
>         apologize in advance if I missed a more recent reference to
>         this issue.
>         
>          
>         
>         /paulc
>         
>          
>         
>         [1]
>         http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html?type=1#namespaceDocument-8 
>         
>         [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/nsDocuments/
>         
>         [3]
>         http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008Feb/0079.html 
>         
>         [4] http://www.w3.org/2008/02/21-tagmem-minutes.html  
>         
>          
>         
>         Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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