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The harsher problem will be if the solutions for these add unnecessary costs to projects and bids. That will result in them being truly academic exercises and perhaps in casting a worse shadow on them then they merit. Political pounding can result in a lot of rework, reinvention and shifts of power centers. That is a bad thing. Where this will become evident is in data design efforts that insist on using SW technology for features that can just as easily be accomplished with other more readily available technologies. Responses such as "the W3C has a vested interest in xxx" are the kinds of responses that make me ignore the specifications being produced by that working group. It tells me that the engineer or writer has not thought through the alternatives or is simply preferring a local implementation strategy. Otherwise, efforts such as the SemWeb are part of the W3C's charter to be forward looking. That is a good thing. It becomes a bad thing when individuals or companies sign up to efforts based purely on their originator and a perception of political correctness. That is a good way to go out of business. len -----Original Message----- From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...] It saddens me that intelligent people are wasting cycles pontificating on the pie in the sky that is the semantic too-fantastic-to-ever-be-real web instead of applying themselves to solve problems that exist today in ways that benefit the average user and the average developer.
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