- From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:33:23 -0500
- To: Gary Hallmark <GARY.HALLMARK@oracle.com>
- Cc: W3C RIF WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
> I agree that RIF Core should not support actions. We'll have a PR or ECA > or Reactive Rule dialect that does. > > I do not agree that RIF Core is empty. I think it is positive > non-recursive slotted Horn with some kind of XML schema data typing. > > There may be languages (like Michael's aggregegate-free SQL example) that > can't even meet this "dirt simple" level of conformance. So be it. We > can't make > everyone happy. We should try to make our own constituents happy, and > one of those constituents is certainly the business rule community. > > Cheers, > Gary The RIF standard will clearly be shaped by the constituency of the RIF committee. But this doesn't mean that the committee should be so narrow-minded as to think only about the immediate interests of the committee members. I hope W3C has more common sense than that. As I mentioned in a previous email, we are defining a standard and have the responsibility that this standard passes the crap-test. --michael
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