SUO: standards
All,
After thinking abou this for a few months, I agree with John Sowa, and believe that monolithic ontologies are wrong-headed. They exclude. This means that there can't be any such thing as a "Standard" upper ontology. It seems reasonable to dissolve the group, or let it continue to fragment in dissolution and disgust, and move on.
On the other hand, maybe this entire line of thought has been an indication that there is no serious standards work happening here, and there hasn't been for some time, and the group ought to give a new mindset a shot?
Standards exclude. By virtue of having them (having one), they also enable. Get on with something, or acquiesce as a sociological experiment and forget about engineering an ontology for a standard.
Erik
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