Re: Issues 4.2, 5.2, 5.15, 5.16: proposal to CLOSE

I am distinctly unhappy releasing the documents as working drafts without
closure on these issues.  I believe that working drafts should correspond
to the current thinking of the working group, at least on major issues such
as the ones below.  (I would be willing to release without consensus on
things like the names of some of the constructs.)  

If the working group needs to produce something, then why not produce the
updated issue list as a working draft?

peter




From: Jeff Heflin <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>
Subject: Re: Issues 4.2, 5.2, 5.15, 5.16: proposal to CLOSE
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:15:23 -0400

> 
> I don't believe we are ready to close issue 5.15. My understanding was
> that we would release the OWL Lite Working Draft but not consider the
> set of features in OWL Lite finalized. In particular, I think my concern
> (raised at the face-to-face) about whether OWL Lite should be something
> that can be easily implemented in Horn logic or datalog is still valid.
> As such, I am not prepared to say that local existential range
> restrictions belong in OWL lite, and oppose closing 5.15.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> Guus Schreiber wrote:
> > 
> > Issue 4.2 Cardinality constructs and Levels
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html#I4.2-Cardinality-Constructs-Levels
> > 
> > Issue 5.2 Language Compliance Levels
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html#I5.2-Language-Compliance-Levels
> > 
> > Issue 5.15 Feature decision for compliance level 1: local ranges
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html#I5.15-Feature-decision-for-CL1-local-range
> > 
> > Issue 5.15 Feature decision for compliance level 1: lcardinality
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html#I5.16-Feature-decision-for-CL1-cardinality
> > 
> > Proposal to CLOSE these issues in conformace with the resolutions of the
> > Stanford face-to-face meeting [1], as reflected in the feature synopsis
> > documentt [2]:
> > 
> > - OWL will have a named subset, called "OWL Lite"
> > - OWL Lite includes both universal and existential local range restrictions
> > - OWL Lite includes min/max cardinality restrictions of 0 and 1
> > 
> > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Jul/0038.html
> > [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Jul/0040.html

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