LC2 Responses/JC1

To: jeremy@topquadrant.com
CC: public-owl-comments@w3.org
Subject: [LC response] To Jeremy Carroll

Dear Jeremy,

Thank you for your comment
     <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009May/0012.html>
on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.

The Working Group feels that using a separate namespace for some or all of the new features of OWL 2 or using a different name for OWL 2 itself would be confusing to the vast majority of Semantic Web users, even those who might not use all these new features.

The Working Group believes that all of the new features in OWL 2 are adequately supported. Much of this support is documented in the recently revised New Features and Rationale document with working draft available at http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/New_Features_and_Rationale

The Working Group will therefore not be making any changes to the design or branding of OWL 2 nor to the OWL 2 documents in response to your comment.

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, and whether you would like us to record you as Formally Objecting to the advancement of OWL 2 along the W3C Recommendation Track. (Note that according to the W3C Process, Formal Objections are made by individuals, not organizations.)

Regards,
Peter F. Patel-Schneider
on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group

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