Joint Committee Charter
* initial draft for committee review *
Purpose
The
Joint United States / European Union ad hoc Agent Markup Language Committee
(informally known as "the Joint Committee") will develop 1
or more specifications to support the production and use of
semantic content on the World Wide Web. This includes but
is not limited to ontologies, instances, rules, and logic.
Deliverables
The committee will produce and maintain the language specification
currently known as the
DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML).
It will have final authority over the content of documents related to the
language specification.
Membership
The initial membership and chair of the committee were appointed
from among participants in US and EU Semantic Web efforts
by Jim Hendler
and Hans-Georg Stork.
New members may be invited to join by the committee.
The committee has no official ties to
DARPA,
W3C,
or other organizations.
Committee membership implies a
minimum time commitment on the order of one day a week.
Meetings and Communication
Technical discussion related to the committee is expected to take place primarily on the public
[email protected]
email list.
The committee will hold regular telecons to summarize and vote on language issues.
Telecons are open to committee members and guests invited by the chair;
only members
(including advisors, editors, the chair, and other members)
may vote.
It is expected that most of the committee discussion will focus on specific technical
proposals previously posted to www-rdf-logic.
Votes will require a majority of the committee membership to pass.
Language specifications and summaries of meetings will be posted to the
public committee WWW site
and announced to www-rdf-logic.
Face-to-face meetings may also be held several times a year.
Evolution
This charter can be modified by a majority vote of the committee members.
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