Inspired by Sowa’s Law of Standards, Jon Udell writes;
My guess is that we’ll see a de facto alternative to the W3C’s proposed semantic-web standards — Web Ontology Language and RDF
It could happen, but I don’t think so. I could definitely see a new XML serialization of RDF happening this way though, but RDF itself? It’s already very simple, and has even sacrificed some expressiveness (e.g. quads) in the name of maintaining that simplicity. I think that’s good and healthy, and I can’t imagine any other spec doing what it can and being any simpler, nor can I imagine being able to remove much from RDF and still have it be useful to a lot of people.
I haven’t done enough with OWL to have a strong feeling about it, but it doesn’t seem to add much in the way of (required) complexity AFAICT. For most people, it’s, just another RDF vocabulary.
In the same post he also references some words by Mike O’Dell on the problems with DNS. He comments;
I have no idea whether, or how, “distributed system technology” might finesse the governance issue. But it’s a challenge worth pondering.
Jon might be interested in what the zLabs (“z” for “decentralization”) are up to, in particular the zNS project (not much there yet, but the objective is clear at least).
no comment until now