IRC log of tagmem on 2006-02-14

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Meeting: TAG Weekly
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Scribe: DanC
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Chair: VQ
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Agenda: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2006/02/14-agenda.html
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agenda + Administrative: role call, review records and agenda, plan next meeting
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agenda + Face-to-face in Cannes/Mandelieu
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agenda + Heartbeats
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agenda + Principle of Least Power
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agenda + Issue namespaceDocument-8
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agenda + Issue XMLVersioning-41
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+DOrchard
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Zakim, take up item 1
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agendum 1. "Administrative: role call, review records and agenda, plan next meeting" taken up [from DanC]
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Zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Norm, Noah, Vincent, Ht, DanC, DOrchard
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-> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2006/02/07-tagmem-minutes.html minutes 7 Feb
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minutes 7 Feb good enough for me
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PROPOSED: to meet again 21 Feb
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RESOLVED: to meet again 21 Feb, NDW to scribe
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+TimBL
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regrets timbl 21 Feb
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Zakim, agenda order is 1,2,3,4,6,5
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ok, DanC
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RESOLVED: to accept minutes 7 Feb
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(vq will remove - DRAFT - )
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Zakim, next item
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agendum 2. "Face-to-face in Cannes/Mandelieu" taken up [from DanC]
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-> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2005/02/27-agenda.html meeting page
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DO: I'm working on the state finding... how about that for the agenda?
18:11:41 [noah]
q+ to say I'm hoping we turn corner on least power before F2F, but if not maybe worth a bit of discussion
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q-
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DC: suggest moving metadataInURI-31 after the other 3 technical things
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NM: if we don't finish least power, it might merit ftf discussion. leave it off for now, if the agenda is fluid.
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"Monday 27 February: 13:30 - 17:30 @@@"
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some sentiment for 2p, some for 1:30
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RESOLVED to start 13:30 Monday
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NM: did we end up with any liaison meetings scheduled?
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VQ: not at this tiem
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s/tiem/time/
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Ed: previously we had a "what's important for the coming year" session... shall we do that again
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?
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DC, HT: I prefer the current contents of the agenda to that sort of thing
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NM: perhaps make some time to chat with TV, but otherwise, yes, technical topics
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TBL: hmm.. indeed, looking forward would be good... do we have a social time scheduled? it's hard to swap between technical topics and looking ahead
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DC: perhaps the "what did we learn this week?" session will be sufficient?
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HT: I'm constrained to Monday evening for an evening thing
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NM: I'll be on US east coast time, so not too late
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ACTION: VQ organize a monday evening quiet social event
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Zakim, who is on the phone?
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On the phone I see Norm, Noah, Vincent, Ht, DanC, DOrchard, Ed_Rice, TimBL
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VQ: around 7pm
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Zakim, next item
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agendum 3. "Heartbeats" taken up [from DanC]
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DC: there's a convention of publishing on /TR/ at least every 3 months. We haven't done it in over a year. I'm inclined to take something and publish it.
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NDW: yes, the ns48 finding is approved
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TimBL: how about concatenating the approved findings?
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DC: that's more work than I'm offering now
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http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/namespaceState.html
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list of findings http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/findings
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http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/findings
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http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups.html#three-month-rule
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(norm, I'm inclined to work from the .html only and not bother with the xml)
18:30:54 [noah]
Speaking of which, the approved finding link at http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html?type=1 is to the xml
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This page contains the following errors:
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Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
18:31:45 [Norm]
What page was that timbl?
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TimbL: good to put all this in the SOTD: (1) it's approved by the tag (2) there's lots of other stuff (3) [darn; leaked out already]
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PROPOSED: to publish http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/namespaceState.html as a W3C Working Draft
18:35:09 [Norm]
Uhm, with what shortname?
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The eventual disposition of this text is not cler, but one possibility is it being integrated wioth other finids into a new AWWW or a second volume AWWW
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TAG-namespaceState
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namespaceState
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ACTION NDW: with DanC, publish WD of ns48 finding
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RESOLVED: to publish http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/namespaceState.html as a W3C Working Draft
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VQ: this is just one document; we'll see what we learn from this
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Zakim, next item
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agendum 4. "Principle of Least Power" taken up [from DanC]
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-> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html least power finding, latest version
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-> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower-2006-2-13.html 13 Feb draft
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NM: there has been much www-tag discussion of chomsky hierarchies and complexity...
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What publication date should we use for namespaceState, DanC ?
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dunno
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There are many dimensions to language power and complexity that should be considered when publishing information. For example, a language with a straightforward syntax may be easier to analyze than an otherwise equivalent one with more complex structure. A language that wraps simple computations in unnecessary mechanics, such as object creation or thread management, may similarly inhibit information extraction. The intention of this finding is neither to rigor
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necessarily interferes with information reuse. Rather, this finding observes that a variety of characteristics that make languages powerful can complicate or prevent analysis of programs or information conveyed in those languages, and it suggests that such risks be weighed seriously when publishing information on the Web.
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HT: why not just say "occam's razor applies to computers too"?
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q+
18:41:52 [noah]
Indeed, on the Web, the least powerful language that's suitable should usually be chosen. This is The Rule of Least Power:
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Good Practice: Use the least powerful language suitable for expressing information, constraints or programs on the World Wide Web.
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ack danc
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q+
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ack timbl
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DanC: yes, the principle is 2 lines, but what we add is to relate it to the history of web technology development.
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... e.g. how HTML is and why
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TimBL: yes, examples. CSS vs javascript.
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q+
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(huh? closed and continuous are pretty sharp mathematical concepts.)
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TimBL: the fact that you can cascade to CSS stylesheets is a result of a decision to make it declarative
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ack noah
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q+
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q+ to suggest going specific-to-general
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ack DanC
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DanC, you wanted to suggest going specific-to-general
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q+ to discuss scope of this rewrite...are we thrashing?
18:49:11 [ht]
HST doesn't understand why Turning-completeness is bad
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Prolog is Turing-complete, and dead easy to analyze!
18:50:07 [DanC]
hmm... I thought validator.w3.org would be impossible/impractical if the web had used TeX rather than HTML
18:50:11 [ht]
SQL is Turing-complete (or close), and probably more analyzed than almost any other language
18:50:27 [Vincent]
ack noah
18:50:27 [Zakim]
noah, you wanted to discuss scope of this rewrite...are we thrashing?
18:50:30 [DanC]
the analysis of SQL is precicely on the bits that are *not* turning complete, no?
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belated regrets -- I shamefully admit that I just plain forgot to call in...
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VQ, I suggest a straw poll: how many think it's reasonable to approve as is.
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If you have a Turing-complete program, you don't in general know whether it even gets done
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If I have a table in a relational database, or a list of name/value pairs, I don't have that problem.
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DC: The halting problem is crucial. Most of the other things you want to know follow from it.
18:59:05 [DanC]
no, I didn't say it's crucial.
18:59:14 [noah]
Sorry, that's what I thought I heard you say.
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I just said you can't analyze scheme nor prolog
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Zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Norm, Noah, Vincent, Ht, DanC, DOrchard, Ed_Rice, TimBL
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PROPOSED: to approve "The Rule of Least Power" as 12 Feb draft, incorporating edits agreed by from NDW and NM
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so RESOLVED.
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ACTION NM: announce approved finding, when discussion with NDW concludes
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Zakim, next item
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agendum 6. "Issue XMLVersioning-41" taken up [from DanC]
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ACTION DO: contextualize his scenarios, such as more on what is happening with SOAP and WSDL
19:04:44 [Norm]
Returning to the publication of namespaceState, I chose 23 Feb as the publication date because that's the last day before the moritorium.
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DO: I did some work on this...
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... sent them to the schema WG a few weeks ago
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... haven't seen [which?] draft posted as I expected
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... I hope to talk with interested people at the TP in France
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... so I think this is done
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DC: pointer?
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DC/HT: getting it public has taken a back seat to other things
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er... rather: DO/HT
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NM: I think we have license to make this public already
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HT: yes, if you can follow up, that would be fine
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-- done
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DO: Appropriate list is public-xml-versioning@w3.org
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ACTION DO: with NM continue and extrapolate the versioning work DO et al have been doing already, updating the terminology section.
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-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2006Feb/0042.html terminology section update from DO 13 Feb
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DO: I got some comments re first/last name from Misha
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DO: main list is public-xml-versioning
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not necessarily new, ht. RRSagent groks continued/done actions too
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or at least: scribe.perl does
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q+
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ack danc
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DC: hmm... public-xml-versioning... partial understanding isn't limited to xml
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q+
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ack timbl
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DO: public-xml-versioning was created at the suggestion of the TAG as a mechanism for collaboration with XML Schema WG.
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q+ to incline towards focussing on XML language
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NM: [... about broadening from xml-specific story to a story about strings, with markup as a special case]
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(which appeals to me)
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q+
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ack ht
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ht, you wanted to incline towards focussing on XML language
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DO: broadening makes sense to some extent, but there's a limit, and we need to be sure to deliver for XML authors
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ack timbl
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(surely notation 3 is a webized language that's not XML)
19:22:50 [noah]
Isn't URI an example of a non-QNamed namespace
19:22:50 [DanC]
(webized meaning: has its terms grounded in URI space)
19:23:02 [ht]
DanC, remind me what N3's media type is?
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I.e., can I follow-my-nose to find out about N3?
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text/n3+rdf or some such; registration pending
19:23:33 [noah]
I thought we set up in Edinburgh that versioning was about the conclusions drawn by a consumer and a producer for any particular document, where the two parties have imperfect agreement on the language they thought they were using.
19:23:39 [noah]
I like that start a lot, and it's not XML-specific
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HT: [...] XML gives us the "follow your nose" principle, with namespaces
19:24:25 [noah]
Follow your nose seems to give you something very important, which is self description. I'm not convinced that versioning should be only about self-describing documents.
19:24:29 [DanC]
TBL: all stories about versioning depend on a notion of semantics/meaning...
19:26:44 [DanC]
... at the level of XML, there is only a basic infrastructure. At higher levels, e.g. HTML and RDF, there's more to say
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zakim, who is here?
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On the phone I see Norm, Noah, Vincent, Ht, DanC, DOrchard, Ed_Rice, TimBL
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On IRC I see Norm, timbl, Ed, RRSAgent, Vincent, noah, Zakim, ht, DanC
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DC: meanwhile, I have a new .violet file from DO that I intend to check against my changePolicy.n3 work
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TBL: I wonder about a 4 part finding:
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(1) at the level of representations
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(2) at the level of namespaces in XML
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(?) [...] in HTML and such
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(4) an one about RDF
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NM: about strings of characters?
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TBL: that's what I meant by (1)
19:32:05 [noah]
Cool.
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DO: let's please have some discussion on public-xml-versioning of the new terminology section
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+1
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VQ: with regret, it's time to curtail this discussion
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+1
19:33:26 [Norm]
Uh, on the previous :-)
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VQ: maybe next time we'll get to ns8
19:34:12 [Norm]
I'll try to get back to Jonathan and make progress on ns8 for next week
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-DOrchard
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-Ht
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-Noah
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-Norm
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-DanC
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-Ed_Rice
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-Vincent
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ADJOURN.
19:39:05 [DanC]
hmm... the archive cover page of http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-versioning/ doesn't say that it's a joing tag/xml-schema thingy
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disconnecting the lone participant, TimBL, in TAG_Weekly()12:30PM
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TAG_Weekly()12:30PM has ended
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Attendees were Norm, [IBMCambridge], Noah, Vincent, Ht, DanC, DOrchard, Ed_Rice, TimBL
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Maintainer_Email: cmsmcq
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in May 2005 DO sent a pointer to http://www.w3.org/XML/2005/xsd-versioning-use-cases/
19:43:00 [DanC]
hmm... Hoylen answers "Sorry, we are not able to help you" to a question that I think was pretty interesting.
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