+1 from me, thinking about Reporting Consumer perspective that has to deal with any unknown Service Providers.
Tack Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 07:41:51 -0700 From: Nick Crossley <[email protected]> To: oslc-core <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [oslc-core] Should RDF/XML be MUST? Message-ID: <offe02aad1.f0d20b5b-on88257720.00501015-88257720.0050b...@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Personally, I do not care about RDF, but surely we must have at least one common representation for OSLC. If all domains are completely free to mandate their own favored representation, then a cross-domain client is put in an almost impossible position of having to deal with a potentially large number of different representations. Imagine a client trying to trace down from requirements through CM, SCM, test cases, build automation producing software assets, etc., and every one requiring a different representation. RDF/XML might not be the ideal way to represent RDF, but it is something we seem to have invested quite a lot of time in already. I believe it is essential to have at least one common representation that is required by all OSLC domains. Nick. Tack Tong IBM Rational software [email protected] 905-413-3232 tie line 313-3232:
