SUO: Motion to Reconsider the vote on SUMO motion
At 14:44 2001-08-18 -0700, Adam Pease wrote:
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> Murray,
> The Open Group web site is unfortunately not entirely accurate. I will
> ask them to correct it. We do have tools (a browser) as you know, but it
> is not yet mature enough for general release, nor do we have an inference
> engine for general release yet. However, those interested in inference
> could use OTTER or PTTP without much enhancement on SUMO I suspect. Once
> again, there is no proprietary content in SUMO, nor are any specific tools
> required. There is no obligation to the Open Group. Our hope is that
> members of the Open Group task force will use the QoS ontology and help
> improve it as well as feeding back questions and requirements for
> SUMO. The more domain specific ontology efforts that can be undertaken
> using SUMO, the more relevant and correct we can ensure that SUMO is.
> The relationship between our QoS ontology and SUMO is one of child to
> parent. The QoS ontology uses terms and definitions from SUMO. In the
> browser for the QoS ontology we've loaded them into the same knowledge base.
> All the IJCAI workshop results, papers and presentations are posted on
> the workshop web site at <http://projects.teknowledge.com/IJCAI01>.
> I did not promise Frank a list of responses to all his points with my
> ballot, but I do intend to include those items in a posting in the future.
Murray-
You have asked me if I have received a response from Adam, but I haven't received any response and I wouldn't expect one so quickly. My comments, just like others', will be part of the ballot comments. After the ballot comments are published (Jim sends this out to the WG), the ballot comments are then "resolved". Normally, there would be a "ballot resolution meeting" (attempting to refine and extract a list of improvements), but since we don't meet face-to-face, we'll probably resolve them over the E-mail reflector, just like we did in previous ballots. The purpose of the ballot resolution is to get agreement on improvements for incorporation into future drafts of SUMO. The ballot resolution is after the vote; the ballot resolution does not cause a re-vote (or a reconsideration).
This is the normal operation of a standards committee: incremental improvements, many iterations. Like I said previously, IEEE is happy to have a meeting to help us understand more about the standards process.
-FF
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