On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:11 -0500, Dan Brickley wrote:
> Would it be important to you/LOM for SKOS to go "Recommendation track"?
> At the moment we are planning to publish it as Working Drafts leading to
> a Working Group Note. But we're looking for evidence from the wider
> community about the REC vs Note tradeoff? A Recommendation would take
> longer to do, but would get more wide-ranging review from other
> groups...
I know for certain that IEEE strongly prefers "published standards", the
more formal, the better. And I'm pretty sure it will have an influence
on adoption in other communities I have contact with as well. ("Its a
*W3C Recommendation* for heavens sake!" :-)
I can see a lot of holes being filled by SKOS (not the least as related
to topic maps), and if you can put the full weight of the W3C behind it,
why not? If you believe that you have a good enough spec, with support
from the right communities...
I suppose that it's a case of spec that's needed *now* by a lot of
people, but that's going to be with us for a long time... who am I to
tell the right route :-)
/Mikael
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