- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:41:42 -0500 (EST)
- To: Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com (Champion, Mike)
- Cc: Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com (Champion Mike), www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Nice explanation/analogy. I would be happy to see something like this Thanks. > as a strong requirement for a Web Architecture -- that it encourage > "controlled vocabularies", whether textual or numeric, that machines > can use to process "semantic" information from messages and results. Agreed. I think this is part-and-parcel of our charter directive to not require any "a priori" knowledge of parties. Also known as issue 1; http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/arch/2/issues/wsa-issues.html#x1 and my comments on it; http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-arch/2002Mar/0164.html (actually, I'd like to see this be made explicit in D-AG0007) > > What Tim means by "The Semantic Web", is to extend those kinds of > > transfer-level semantics to the body of the message, where currently > > they are mostly limited to the envelope. > > Well, I can agree in the abstract, but I'd have to see this working in > practice > before agreeing that it is a strong requirement on the WS arch to support. > > Anyway, both Mark and I seem to like the term "aligned with" even though we > have > rather different levels of enthusiasm for the SW initiative. Right. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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