Re: HP reactions to AS&S and OWL

At 17:07 +0000 1/14/03, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
>I have been talking with immediate colleagues about where OWL is at, 
>particularly the OWL Lite, OWL DL and OWL Full layering.
>
>The current reactions are not positive.
>
>I'll first discuss process, then sketch the substantive worries.

[snip]

>
>I have been unable to defend the chairs' enthusiasm for skipping CR; 
>when we have so many unimplemented features in OWL. I can easily 
>imagine a scenario in which OWL rushes to PR, some non-WG member 
>objects that we have insufficient implementation experience; my AC 
>rep asks for my opinion and I have to say that the objection is 
>well-founded.

I'm confused Jeremy - we saw ample examples of implementation of OWL 
tools at the f2f, and I'm still not sure what features of Lite you 
believe are unimplemented.  I asked several times at the f2f for 
people to bring up things they think are as yet unimplemented but 
needed for moving to PR, and very few were mentioned - my lab took 
two actions to produce some of this.  You brought up none and 
volunteered none.  I have been drafting some starts at the 
implementation experience, and I don't see any major holes -- please 
identify any you have so we can start to fill them
  -JH

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Received on Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:34:42 UTC