Joint Committee Minutes 21 November 2000
This page summarizes the telecon for the Joint US/EU
Committee on Agent Markup Languages
held from 1300 to 1400 PST on 21 November 2000.
These minutes were prepared by the chairman,
and were approved during the 28 November telecon.
Participants
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Dan Connolly (joined late)
- Mike Dean
- Stefan Decker
- Dieter Fensel (joined late)
- Frank van Harmelen
- Pat Hayes (joined late)
- Jeff Heflin
- Jim Hendler (joined late)
- Ian Horrocks
- Ora Lassila
- Deb McGuinness
- Lynn Andrea Stein
DAML-OIL
We spent most of the meeting discussing the draft
DAML-OIL proposal
from Ian Horrocks and Peter Patel-Schneider.
This draft was circulated to the committee for feedback prior
to being posted on www-rdf-logic for public comment.
The committee decided to defer an official vote on the proposals (see below)
until after the public review.
The general feeling of the committee was:
- definition of Thing: support
- add local cardinality restrictions: support
- iff conditions: no consensus (and lots of discussion)
- cardinality removed from properties: support
- removal of qualifications: support
- renaming of toValue/hasValue: support
- removal of default: support (or define semantics for default)
- namespace equivalents: no consensus, but leaning toward support -- this is potentially disruptive to current users of daml-ont
(5 and 6 were originally listed as one item)
Voting
There was some discussion as to what the committing voting on a proposal means.
The consensus is that this committee controls the language specification
now known as DAML-ONT, and can vote to change it
(generally in response to public discussion on the www-rdf-logic email list).
Our actions will be announced to www-rdf-logic.
If folks respond negatively on www-rdf-logic and add additional information,
a topic can be revisited by the committee.
Upcoming Schedule
RESOLVED: There will be no telecon on December 5,
given the face-to-face meetings planned for December 7-8.
The Rules Subcommittee will hold an initial telecon immediately following
next week's meeting.
Links
Kelly Barber's raw notes
last week's minutes
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