- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 19:27:31 +0100
- To: public-webont-comments@w3.org
OWL Web Ontology Language Semantics and Abstract Syntax W3C Working Draft 31 March 2003 owl:imports, as defined in 2.1 Ontologies http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-semantics-20030331/syntax.html#2.1 A semantic import mechanism for the RDF-based languages looks potentially useful and in considering if and how to implement it, there are some problems. Firstly it seems that owl:imports potentially will import the entire semantic web of OWL Ontologies. Have you considered the security and denial-of-service implications of this mechanism? Secondly, is not clear at what stage that this (Imports Closure http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-semantics-20030331/rdfs.html#5.3 ) should be done. In an example where you have some RDF/XML that will map to RDF triples describing an OWL ontology, what are the steps that you expect to happen? A process point - the WebOnt issue list as of 6 May 2003 does not record the details of the objections made when this syntax based daml:imports was decided: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html#I5.6-daml:imports-as-magic-syntax Thanks Dave
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