SUO: Re: Consensus?
John,
I think we've reached agreement. Many thanks for your
persistence. I'll support an IFF motion if you'll support my SUMO
motion. My hope is that others will follow suit.
Adam
At 06:53 PM 5/13/2003 -0400, sowa wrote:
>Pat, Jay, Adam, and Robert,
>
>With the recent flurry of notes, I believe we
>can see light at the end of the email tunnel.
>
>1. Pat made the observation that the joint
> motion is actually a proposal for a new
> ontology, which is based on, but different
> from both:
>
>>>The third ontology will have mappings to SUMO and OpenCyc
>>>and will present an opportunity to test the utility of
>>>the IFF theory for organizing multiple ontologies,
>>>and an opportunity for those who would prefer not to
>>>use either SUMO or OpenCyc to try to create something
>>>better than either (whether better for some specific
>>>purpose or better in being able to map more precisely
>>>to more ontologies).
>>
>2. Jay supported that idea and suggested that we call it
> SUM -- Standard Upper Meta-ontology. But we should
> probably get the letter L in there for "Library".
> We can leave that as a challenge for the acronym
> hackers.
>
>3. Then Adam proposed that we all support joint motion
> as well as the SUMO motion, but if so, I suggest we
> also ask John D. to reintroduce the OpenCyc motion:
>
> > If this is the intent, and you'll vote for the
> > SUMO motion as well as the combined motion, then
> > I would be willing to support the combined motion
> > also, but only if you'll also endorse the SUMO motion.
>
>4. Finally, Robert strongly endorsed the joint motion
> and pledged to work closely with both the SUMO and
> OpenCyc groups.
>
>Summary: Let's take advantage of this willingness
>to cooperate by all of us agreeing to support three
>motions -- one for OpenCyc, one for SUMO, and one for
>the joint library using a methodology based on IFF.
>Then all three candidate projects (OpenCyc, SUMO,
>and IFF) would have equal status, and they would all
>be partners in developing a joint library of modules.
>
>John Sowa
>