[SCL] Schedule for next CL Draft

[pat hayes]

>Pat,
>
>Nancy said that the main objection of the ISO gang
>was that there didn't seem to be anybody working
>on the standard.  The evidence was
>
>  1. There was no editor for the proposed ISO
>     standard.
>
>  2. Nobody from the CL group was a member of the
>     US TAG (i.e., INCITS T2 committee).

As I recall, this was because to become a member required substantial 
$$ outlay, and none of us can afford this stuff.

>  3. They didn't see anything beyond the slides
>     I presented in January.
>
>To address point #1 and #2, Nancy and I persuaded
>Harry Delugach from U. of Alabama to join INCITS T2.
>He has done that, and he is willing to be the
>titular "editor".  That means that he will
>(a) pass along whatever content we prepare,
>(b) make sure that the ISO boilerplate is
>on the cover, and (c) forward whatever
>comments the ISO people generate to this list.
>
>To address point #3, they don't mean something
>that is finished and ready to be voted as a standard.
>But they would like to see a working draft that shows
>some progress beyond slides.
>
>>  Do you want progress, or an actual draft standard?
>>  We can certainly report *progress*. The current
>>  main large holes, seems to me, apart from just the
>>  considerable work of actually writing a readable document
>>  in an appropriate style, are (1) to define a workable
>>  XML syntax (2) to define a concrete CG syntax (3) to get
>>  a coherent story together about how to specify datatype-defined
>>  domains and integrate them into the abstract syntax and the
>>  model theory.  Later, but less urgent, we can do (4) get
>>  a really good story together about sequence quantifiers.
>
>I believe that what we have already, plus what Chris
>was planning to add plus what I will contribute for (2)
>(the CG part) should show reasonable progress by the
>middle of this month.

I think we might be able to come up with a more digestible summary of 
where we are at. I will try to make this a priority for next week, 
before I set off to Sanibel Island.

>  That should be sufficient for Nancy
>to say something convincing.

Another item Nancy could consider mentioning is the Lbase translation 
tables for RDF and RDFS, since Lbase is essentially a simplified SCL 
and I plan to use minor adaptations of these in the SCL document to 
define connections between existing W3C SW standards and SCL. See

http://www.w3.org/TR/lbase/

for the latest version. The actual translation details are at

http://www.w3.org/TR/lbase/#using

>
>>  That is a horrible deadline given the timing of ISWC
>>  and the DAML PI meeting.
>
>Let's see what we can put together.  It can have large
>gaps, provided that we can give some indication of
>when we expect to fill them.

Ok, point taken.  I can certainly provide a kind of overview of where 
we are at and the general structure of the spec as we envision it.

Pat

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