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RE: Is it just me...

• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• To: Ann Navarro <ann@w...>, Paul Tchistopolskii <paul@q...>,xml-dev@x...
• Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:59:45 -0500

Despite Tim Bray's protests, the current thread is 
to explore precisely that topic, educate ourselves, 
and determine among ourselves if there is substance 
to the vision.  Buy in prior to that is an 
act of faith and XML is a technology, not a religion. 
We did our time with The SGML Way and discovered 
we need to question such things critically.  Replacing it 
with The Semantic Way or the Director's Way is simply 
no longer a good business decision.

It is a bad sign when community leaders question 
the community's need to explore topics of interest 
to clarify them.  A very bad sign.

Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Navarro [mailto:ann@w...]

To my knowledge, and I think I've been paying attention since the last W3C 
AC meeting, is that there is no such document.
The semantic web is an idea of TBL, and is primarily in Tim's brain, and 
takes lots of education, and then buy in, and then a decision of what to do 
about it. He doesn't have a magic fairy wand to just turn everything into 
his vision -- which may or may not be a good one, it's way too early to 
decide.

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