- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:18:55 -0500
- To: "Smith, Michael K" <michael.smith@eds.com>, www-webont-wg <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
It is the responsibility of the chairs to remind WG members of the charter when necessary. I haven't confirmed the below w/Guus, and thus we may eventually want to mitigate the below, but I feel some of the discussion on the WG list is getting very close to the charter boundaries, so I want to make sure we are careful and don't go too far down paths that could take us out of scope. At 3:45 PM -0600 3/5/02, Smith, Michael K wrote: >I wanted to second Jim's comment re rdf:parsetype and N3. I think you mean Jon's comments. [snip] At 3:45 PM -0600 3/5/02, Smith, Michael K wrote: > >----------------------------------------------------------- >MOTION: The primary syntax for OWL will be defined in XML. [snip] Please be aware that the proposal here is something of a departure from charter terms, we are committed to: At 9:02 PM -0500 3/5/02, Jim Hendler wrote: > * The language will use the XML syntax and datatypes wherever >possible, and will be designed for maximum compatibility with XML >and RDF language conventions. so we are supposed to use XML, but also to have "Maximum compatibility" w/RDF, making it hard for us to forego it completely under this charter. Further, >The Working Group shall start by evaluating the technical solutions >proposed in the DAML+OIL draft. If in this process the Working Group >finds solutions that are agreed to be improvements over solutions >suggested by DAML+OIL, those improved solutions should be used. this is the "elastic" clause in our charter - it lets us depart from how D+O did things, but only if we have substantial agreement that this is a significant technical improvement -- the "significant" is my interpretation based on the Director's statement approving our WG. [Note that the Director's statement is W3C member only, so I will not state it here - WG members can see it at [1] In that document, you will note a number of strong statements about how our work relates to that of RDF Core -- obviously we are expected to follow this guidance which represents the approval of our WG by the W3C membership] So we are allowed to go this route, but understand a wholesale departure from RDF is out of charter, and a more mixed approach is allowed, but only if carefully justified with significant consensus from within the WG. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-semweb-cg/2001Oct/0024.html -- 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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