From: Lassila Ora (NRC/Boston) (ora.lassila@nokia.com)
Date: 09/18/02
Related to our discussion yesterday about including/importing: I wanted to
stress the fact that although things like complete reasoning are different
from things like whether some file can be accessed at some particular time
on the web, we (the Joint Committee) should be designing our things
(representation languages, query languages, rule languages, etc.) in such a
manner that the nasty eventualities of the web can be dealt with.
If we do not take the architecture and the realities of the World Wide Web
into account, we are not doing anything really new. Then our work becomes
"just" KR. And furthermore, I believe that in order for us to be successful
in furthering the Semantic Web, dealing with these details is a strong
requirement.
I am not suggesting that we fully immerse ourselves in the problems and
issues of distributed, asynchronous systems and communication protocols, but
I am suggesting that whatever we do has to make life with distributed
processing easier. Given that our stuff gets built and lives on top of many
earlier web standards, we can take full advantage of these if we expose some
of their features (HTTP caching rules for example come to mind).
I'll get off the soapbox now...
- Ora
P.S. It seems that I always wake up when someone uses the words "RDF" and
"stupidity" in the same sentence :-)
--
Ora Lassila mailto:ora.lassila@nokia.com http://www.lassila.org/
Research Fellow, Nokia Research Center
Chief Scientist, Nokia Venture Partners
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> Mike
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> agenda updates/additions
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> announcements
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> minutes deferred
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> DQL feedback (Richard, et al - 20 minutes)
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> possible DQL papers (Richard, et al - 20 minutes)
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> daml:imports?
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> next week
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> Description Rules update?
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> DAML PI Meeting presentation plans
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