[SCL] Re: [CL] CL web page

[Tanel Tammet]

Pat Hayes wrote:

> See above. Basically, please don't refer to the W3C effort as there is 
> no W3C effort. Or at any rate, don't refer to it until you hear about 
> it from someone at the W3C. The chances of it, even if it comes into 
> existence, being called "SCL" are, I would guess, remote. There are 
> powerful interests, with strong influence over W3C activities, who are 
> firmly opposed to various aspects of the CL design, and will work 
> energetically to prevent anything like CL being adopted as a W3C 
> standard. 

Would you care to elaborate a bit: which aspects provoke firm opposition 
and why?

BTW, on the standardisation front I am in the camp of believers in the 
implementation-based de facto
standards: committees can improve such standards, but not create 
meaningful standards from
scratch. Hence I believe there won't be a meaningful RDFS, OWL, CL or 
SCL kind of standard before
a widely used and successful implementation appears. Until then, the 
standardisation efforts
will be mainly educational projects,  which is IMHO a nice and positive 
activity, if taken as such.

Regards,
          Tanel Tammet