Re: SUO: Procedural question
At 11:54 2002-05-09 +0200, Jean-Luc Delatre wrote:
>
> jim.s3@juno.com a écrit :
>
> > As I see it, SUMO (assuming it makes progress, builds consensus,
> > and grows a user base), OpenCyc, or any other contenders would either
> > need to merge or face off.
>
> ROTFL!
>
> What makes you think that SUMO (or anything like it for that matter...)
> could build consensus?
>
> See: http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/03/21/0739222.shtml#349489
>
> Even W3C is short on that in spite of their visibility!
> Is IEEE more "powerfull" ?
I read your references, now I suggest you RTFP&Ps. :-)
The IEEE requirement for consensus building is 75% in sponsor ballot. Sometimes, as Jim pointed out, projects discover that they may need to split into separate, independent projects. Each project has its own 75% consensus requirement. If people want to continue SUMO, OpenCyc, IFF, etc., as separate projects, they may. If they want to continue them in the same project, they'll have to get to some agreement (merge, face-off, something new, etc.) that gets to 75% <-- no different than another standards projects with competing ideas/technologies.
However, your W3C vs. IEEE comparison is apples and oranges. In your URL regarding W3C and its Semantic Web (I largely agree with those points on Slashdot), it discusses (1) the feasibility of the technology with respect to (paraphrasing) "all the pages on the web", and (2) the adoption of this technology for a significant portion of the web.
The SUO work doesn't frame itself in addressing all the needs of the web (it audience is probably different) and the SUO work doesn't set itself out to be adopted (large scale) by the web.
So it's not the IEEE is more "powerful", per se, than W3C ... it's that W3C has a different audience and different kind of expectation (with respect to adoption, etc.) than IEEE SUO.
-FF
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