Brian McBride, co-chair of the W3C RDF Core Working Group, has reported on the current progress of the group to the www-rdf-interest mailing list.

Reporting that the RDF Core WG has commenced its work and decision making, McBride first pointed out the public mail archive of the group, w3c-rdfcore-wg. The WG plans to use the RDF Issues List as the definitive place for documenting the status of all issues.

McBride referenced four issues, resolved already (but not yet normative), that may affect developers:

• All attributes must be namespace qualified
• aboutEachPrefix to be removed
• Resolution on how to interpret empty property elements
• An RDF model may contain partial descriptions of a container

He also pointed to issues currently being considered, and those awaiting consideration. McBride requested that www-rdf-interest members look over the issues list and send mail to www-rdf-comments@w3.org with any issues that are missing.