Re: REQDOC: New Draft

>Moreover, the ontology language
>itself provides no mechanism for adding annotations - we are relying
>on RDF (or some similar mechanism) for that.

  That is a possible decision for this group to take, but we are 
certainly able to decide to have language features relating to 
instances if we wish - and the charter doesn't rule that out. For 
example, the group could descide that
"owl:sameInstance" is something we wanted to add, and that would 
certainly be within scope.


>
>
>13. Section 5, "Definitional constraints on conjunctive types". It
>seems strange to have this as an objective as it is just a special
>case of the requirement for being able to state class
>equivalence/subsumption relationships.
>

again, seems to me Ian is pre-guessing a solution - he may well be 
right, but we're not constrained for this to be implemented as a 
special case.
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Received on Tuesday, 26 February 2002 10:53:58 UTC