From: Deborah McGuinness ([email protected])
Date: 11/09/01
fine - then from a wg perspective, it is a slippery slope to start putting "foo"s in the core. d Jim Hendler wrote: > At 4:39 PM -0800 11/8/01, Deborah McGuinness wrote: > >that is doable. > >there will be a number of daml:foo s and they will have a lot of arguments > >and a lot of implications thus the english description of them will not be > >compact but doable. > > > >I guess then i should add a request to what i said people might send me - a > >proposed daml syntax for the new request as well. > >i am not expecting any one person to send everything but eventually we want > >to fill in the template. > > > >And on the notion of DAML+OIL layers, I would claim that we will put the > >daml:foos in a non-core layer. > >While we at stanford will want to update our daml parsers to understand the > >fancy foo's we dont want to break all of the existing tools every time we > >add a new foo. > >while the daml+oil core may find a fair amount of stability, i expect the > >foos to keep growing. > > > >d > > from a joint committee perspective that's fine. From a WG > perspective, we are trying to finalize a proposal - I don't think we > will propose layers, unless there is a compelling reason to do so. > What we are trying to propose is the core. > -- > Professor James Hendler [email protected] > Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 > Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) > AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 > http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler -- Deborah L. McGuinness Knowledge Systems Laboratory Gates Computer Science Building, 2A Room 241 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9020 email: [email protected] URL: http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm (voice) 650 723 9770 (stanford fax) 650 725 5850 (computer fax) 801 705 0941
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