[SCL] Issues and proposals (details)

[Jim Hendler]

At 8:55 -0500 1/13/03, John F. Sowa wrote:
>I agree with Tanel's point:
>
>>  IMHO it would be good to have an annex with the algorithm
>>  for converting "scl XML" <-> RDF.
>
>Yes.  That would be important for supporting legacy RDF
>implementations.  However, I don't believe that we should
>sacrifice a good solid design for CL/SCL in order to
>perpetuate poor design decisions by people who didn't
>understand the issues.
>
>John Sowa
>

which may be why none of the proposed web logics has found much 
traction on the web yet -- it's worth noting that purity of heart by 
us AI folks is fine and good, but there's a lot more of "them" out 
there than us, and we need to make things inoperate.  One thing we've 
been learning in the RDFS/OWL world is that just putting things into 
XML doesn't help much - the key is identifying some real world "use 
cases," focusing on their needs, and being compatible with the 
languages and tools they use.   Personally, I'm willing to trade off 
solid design for having something that the world actually uses, but I 
won't push that too hard here -- so just consider this a "caution" 
worth considering

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