W3C Namespace and Submission Details

From: Sandro Hawke (sandro@w3.org)
Date: 11/12/03

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    > want stable W3C namespaces,
> e.g., for RDF version and for non-RDF XML version
> e.g., Nr:  and Nx:   where N is, say, owlruleml,
> or (Harold) swr;
> Sandro:  propose swrl and swrlx, pronounced "Swirl"
> Sandro is finding out what the W3C process is for getting a namespace

   http://www.w3.org/2003/11/swrl
   http://www.w3.org/2003/11/swrlx

are now approved for this use, persuant to "URIs for W3C namespaces"
[1], which says "[W]hen a submission is made ... with the possibility
of seeding rec track work ... the submitter may want to ask for a W3C
namespace to use in the submission, in order to ease any future path."

> o doing the W3C Note on SWRL
> 
> Sponsors will be MIT (Benj), NRC (Harold), Network Inference (Ian)
> 
> Sandro:  refer to it in interim as submitted not as an actual Note til
> it's accepted which takes about a month

No, that's not right.  Sorry I wasn't more clear about this:

     Prior to acknowledgment, the Submitter(s) MUST NOT, UNDER ANY
     CIRCUMSTANCES, refer to a document as "submitted to the World
     Wide Web Consortium" or "under consideration by W3C" or any
     similar phrase either in public or Member communication. The
     Submitter(s) MUST NOT imply in public or Member communication
     that W3C is working (with the Submitter(s)) on the material in
     the Member Submission. The Submitter(s) MAY publish the documents
     in the Member Submission prior to acknowledgment (without
     reference to the Submission request).

     After acknowledgment, the Submitter(s) MUST NOT, under any
     circumstances, imply W3C investment in the Member Submission
     until, and unless, the material has been adopted as part of a W3C
     Activity. 

                                    -- W3C Process Document [2]

Now, obviously it's already a matter of public record that W3C is
working in this area, and the situations this text is intended to
prevent are unlikely to arise in this community (where no salesman is
trying to convince a customer to buy a product based on its
association with W3C), but we should still respect it, and just talk
about this proposal in terms of its DAML publication path until the
the process is complete.

Also, note that if acknowledged it becomes "a Submission", NOT "a
Note".  The term Note has been deprecated, and only survives in the
form of a "Working Group Note", which a chartered Working Group can
choose to publish.

        -- sandro

[1] http://www.w3.org/1999/10/nsuri
[2] http://www.w3.org/2003/06/Process-20030618/submission.html#Submission

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