- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 23:56:03 -0500
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: Tim Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, www-webont-wg@w3.org
> So we are forbidden to even consider the first, but encouraged to >tackle the second. Great. I guess this is what we have managers for, >right? > >Jim, are you serious? If you think that inventing a language with a >clear semantics that can describe its own metatheory is 'doable' by >the webont committee (or indeed by anyone on the planet in the next, >say, five years), I will enjoy sitting back and watching y'all try >to do it. It will be like shooting fish in a barrel. All - for the record - in scope does not mean we must, should, are encouraged etc. It means we are not forbidden. Things that may be in scope, but are technically unachievable would obviously not be things we are likely to achieve consensus on. We need to leave something for the future WGs to do... -JH -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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