Proposal to reopen issue 5.3 semantic layering

I assume that the chairs will require this proposal to be seconded before 
being considered. Nor would I want it considered if I am alone in my 
concerns. So at this stage I am looking for a seconder.

I think the aspect of this issue concerning the syntactic characterization of 
OWL DL should be reopened.
The key problems are:
+ the characterization in terms of the abstract syntax is too difficult to 
explain in terms of RDF triples
+ the abstract syntax characterizatrion interacts poorly with owl:imports
+ the limitations concerning blank nodes in RDF are insufficiently motivated.
+ the limitations seem to be excessively conservative.
+ the documents other than the abstract syntax (and the test cases) have not 
attempted to follow this resolution.


(Issue)
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html#I5.3-Semantic-Layering
(Consenus e-mail)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Oct/0022.html
(Latest characterization)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Dec/0319.html

Jeremy

Received on Tuesday, 31 December 2002 13:01:20 UTC