  RE: MT for imports (was: Re: Imports Proposal)  From: Smith,
Michael K <michael.smith@eds.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002
10:51:07 -0600 Message-ID:
<B8E84F4D9F65D411803500508BE3221411E82DDA@USPLM207> To: Jim
Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>, Jerome.Euzenat@inrialpes.fr   >
But suppose I was using the SW for e-commerce   I don't think
this is something we need to worry about.  You may try to PLAN
your negotiation with inadaquate information.  The result will
be that in the course of the ACTUAL negotiation the other party
will reply that they don't sell single pencils.  > My proposal
is simply to do what programming languages do  There is a big
difference between the semantic web and programming languages.
If a web page refused to display because one of its links was
bad, we would not have the Web.  Compilers have to be a little
more picky.  Vendors will build systems that will leave crumbs
behind, so that a 'successful import' (which I am not defining)
results in assertions like   a     [failedImport | successfulI