The "internet draft" I want to propose is an OWL document. I can get this out tomorrow. It will essentially say everything the current Atom OWL spec says, but in machine readable form.
All that is required then is that the Atom IETF document this working group is working on have some language describing its relation to the OWL document. This need not be a very big change to the current document. I believe it could be done in a few sentences taking my first proposal as a guide. If anyone has some good ideas on where it would be best to change the language, please help me along and write that out. I can do with all the help out there :-)
Understand that all I am proposing is a machine readable rewriting of what the current Atom spec says. That is most of what there is to it. The rest is just asking for a little good will.
Yours sincerely,
Henry Story http://bblfish.net/blog/
On 8 Jan 2005, at 23:35, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
At 10:54 PM +0100 1/8/05, Henry Story wrote:The IETF document I mentioned is the one this mailing list is working on developing.
Then you didn't understand Tim's message. He meant a *new* Internet draft, not a change to the current draft (unless the change is a few sentences). From your list of changes, it doesn't seem like it is just a few sentences, so you need to submit a separate Internet Draft, initially as an individual submission. If the WG agrees that it should be a WG work item, it will change into one; otherwise, you can pursue it as an individual document, probably still discussing it on this mailing list.
The four points I listed are starting points for a couple of small additions to the Atom IETF document and their relation to a to be written OWL Ontology. There are I am sure people more familiar with the ins and outs of this standards process that will know how to turn that general idea into more specific and acceptable proposals.
See Tim's message. You do this by creating either a detailed Pace or a complete Internet Draft.
--Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
