Re: Report on ANSI X3H4 meeting

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Reply-To: cg@cs.umn.edu
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 17:24:02 EST
From: gio@DARPA.MIL (Gio Wiederhold)
Message-id: <9202032224.AA13714@ next65.darpa.mil >
To: rjb@research.att.com (Ron Brachman)
Subject: Re: Report on ANSI X3H4 meeting
Cc: pkarp@ai.sri.com, sowa@watson.ibm.com, kr-advisory@isi.edu, srkb@isi.edu,
        interlingua@isi.edu, cg@cs.umn.edu, mzemanko@note2.nsf.gov,
        jwinkler@nasamail.nasa.gov, skperez@mcimail.com,
        jfulton@atc.boeing.com, mjones@atc.boeing.com

Ron,
The objective of the DARPA KR standards effort is to support  
demonstrations and evaluations of standards and their benefit in a  
community which is unlikely to muster the effort internally.  In the  
database area IBM was the leader and other suppliers, critically  
dependent on consumer acceptance of their products, followed. 


A simple standard is desirable, but hooks (syntax) must be provided  
to allow growth into those areas where today no widely accepted  
conventions can be perceived.

The benefits of such a standard were well stated by Peter Karp.

Back to work ...
Gio