- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:49:07 -0500
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-owl-comments@w3.org, "Ralph R. Swick" <swick@w3.org>
I am most definitely NOT willing to take this response. The notion that the WG somehow thinks that somehow my knowledge "got in the way" is a personal comment that has no place in a technical response to a LC comment, and I find it offensive. I will expect an apology from the Working Group (not the author of the response, but the whole WG as the comment below says "the Working group was unsure..."), and a new response without the personal statement, at which point I will consider the technical aspect of the response. I am also cc'ing Ralph Swick, the Technology and Society Domain lead, in the hopes he will remind the chairs and team lead as to what is appropriate and what is not in WG process -Jim Hendler AC Rep RPI On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Bijan Parsia wrote: > Dear Jim, > > Thank you for your comment > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Jan/0004.html > > > on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts. > > Obviously, it is important that the spec be clear to everyone. The > working group was unsure whether your database expertise "got in the > way" of seeing the rationale or not, but regardless, it is worth > trying to avoid such confusions. To this end, we've added a couple > of sentences to the first paragraph of > <http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Syntax#Keys> > which we hope will prevent such confusion in the future. > > Please note that we will have a more extensive documentation of the > rationale behind this design in the NF&R as well as some discussion > in the primer. The working group will contact you when those > documents reach last call to see if the overall solution meets your > concerns. > > Please acknowledge receipt of this email to <mailto:public-owl-comments@w3.org > > (replying to this email should suffice). In your acknowledgment > please let us know whether or not you are satisfied with the working > group's response to your comment. > > Regards, > Bijan Parsia > on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?." - Albert Einstein Prof James Hendler http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler Tetherless World Constellation Chair Computer Science Dept Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY 12180
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