From: Eric Miller (em@w3.org)
Date: 09/03/01
>From Return-Path: majordomo-owner Received: from tux.w3.org (tux.w3.org [18.29.0.27]) by mail.daml.org (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f82K2fT26120 for <joint-committee@daml.org>; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 16:02:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from DOGWOOD.w3.org (IDENT:root@tux.w3.org [18.29.0.27]) by tux.w3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA32322; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 16:00:58 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010902155323.052cddb0@localhost> X-Sender: em@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 16:03:45 -0400 To: joint-committee@daml.org From: Eric Miller <em@w3.org> Subject: MIT support for Joint Committee Cc: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, ralph swick <swick@w3.org>, Daniel Weitzner <djweitzner@w3.org>, lynn.stein@olin.edu, w3c-semweb-cg@w3.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Joint Committee, We want to clarify and reconfirm that the MIT W3C staff is indeed interested in continuing to work with the informal US/EU ad hoc Joint Committee in the future. The style of collaboration between research groups that made possible the DAML+OIL convergence is precisely the sort of pre-standardization community consensus building that helps the W3C facilitate the next steps towards industry adoption. Recent points raised in the Joint Committee teleconferences have apparently raised questions on our view of the success achieved in the Joint Committee work. Let us dispel any concern that the MIT W3C staff might be backing away from supporting this kind of work. We very much encourage early work toward consensus building that the Joint Committee and other DAML subgroups have undertaken. An important part of the evaluation process that we ask the W3C membership to consider when we propose new W3C Recommendation-track working groups is the existing state of the art. W3C members evaluate whether there exists sufficient design, deployment, and need prior to the creation of a working group to ensure a high level of confidence in industry adoption. This is the evaluation the W3C just re-presented to its members last week for the proposed Web Ontology Working Group. The Joint Committee work sets a solid foundation for the W3C Membership to consider as they rank the priority of Web Ontology work with all the other W3C work items to which they wish to allocate their resources. It was simple for us to commit MIT resources to participate in the ontology discussion within the ad hoc Joint Committee. We had already invested substantial effort to produce strawman documents on the ontology layer as the DAML program was beginning. It was very natural for Dan Connolly, with help from Lynn Stein, Tim Berners-Lee, and others, to participate in the Joint Committee until such time as the community felt ready to present "completed" work to industry standards organizations such W3C. As the Joint Committee moves forward and reconstitutes itself around other layers of the DAML technology, we at MIT will be looking closely at how the future plans of the "new" Joint Committee intersect with our own DAML research goals. We expect to identify the individuals and the level of participation that are appropriate to the new discussions as the group coalesces around a new set of topics. The rules and query agenda now being discussed for the new committee is certainly relevant to our own research and advanced development. We fully expect to want to join in the discussions in some role and bring our perspective on the options the group will be considering from the point of view of leading the Web to its full potential. Regards, Eric Miller, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Ralph R. Swick, W3C Technology and Society Technical Director W3C Semantic Web Advanced Development Lead
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