Re: [All] RE: comment on N-ary relations draft

From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider (pfps@research.bell-labs.com)
Date: 12/09/04

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    Yes. Then comments from the outside might be not be seen by the appropriate
    WG members.
    
    peter
    
    
    From: "Uschold, Michael F" <michael.f.uschold@boeing.com>
    Subject: RE: [All] RE: comment on N-ary relations draft
    Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:20:22 -0800
    
    > Good point. The convention I refer to was agreed by the working group to
    > make it easy to use filters to read about only the task forces of
    > interest.
    > You could not have known this.
    > 
    > I suggest we consider adding some instructions somewhere so that
    > reviewers are aware of this convention.   Are there any disadvantages?
    > 
    > Mike
    > 
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider [mailto:pfps@research.bell-labs.com] 
    > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:23 PM
    > To: Uschold, Michael F
    > Cc: public-swbp-wg@w3.org; joint-committee@daml.org
    > Subject: Re: [OEP] RE: comment on N-ary relations draft
    > 
    > 
    > Not according to the instructions in the document, not that I exactly
    > followed them! 
    > 
    > 	This document is the First Public Working Draft. We encourage
    > 	public comments. Please send comments to public-swbp-wg@w3.org
    > 	[archive] and start the subject line of the message with
    > "comment:" 
    > 
    > peter
    > 
    > 
    > From: "Uschold, Michael F" <michael.f.uschold@boeing.com>
    > Subject: [OEP] RE: comment on N-ary relations draft
    > Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:37:08 -0800
    > 
    > > Please remember to place [OEP] in the message header when discussing
    > OEP
    > > issues
    > > 
    > > Thanks
    > > Mike
    > > 
    > > 
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider [mailto:pfps@research.bell-labs.com] 
    > > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 6:44 AM
    > > To: public-swbp-wg@w3.org
    > > Cc: joint-committee@daml.org
    > > Subject: comment on N-ary relations draft
    > > 
    > > 
    > > I just read the N-ary relations draft and I am somewhat confused as to
    > > why
    > > it has the two representation patterns.  I don't see that the two
    > > patterns
    > > are different in any substantial way as the only difference between
    > them
    > > is
    > > the direction of one arrow.  This difference may matter in some
    > > formalisms
    > > but doesn't in RDF/RDFS (as they are too weak to notice much
    > difference)
    > > or
    > > OWL (as it has the inverse construct).
    > > 
    > > So, my question is why maintain the two different representation
    > > patterns?
    > > 
    > > Peter F. Patel-Schneider
    > > Bell Labs Research
    > > 
    > 
    


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