Revised (format) minutes for 1 Aug 2006 RIF WG Telecon w/ attached htm

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W3C Rules Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group 


Weekly Teleconference


Date: 1 August 2006


Time: 1600 UTC, 0800 (West US) 1100 (East US) 1600 (London) 1700
(Paris) 

Duration: 90 min 

Bridge: +1.617.761.6200 conference code 74394# ('RIFWG') 

IRC Chat: irc:irc.w3.org (port 6665), #rif 

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Meeting Wiki: [http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/2006-08-01_Meeting]


See also: IRC log <http://www.w3.org/2006/08/01-rif-irc> 


Attendees


Present (in alphabetical order): 

Hassan Ait-Kaci 

Harold Boley 

Philippe Bonnard 

Donald Chapin 

Mike Dean 

Jos De Roo 

John Hall 

Gary Hallmark 

Sandro Hawke 

David Hirtle 

Michael Kifer 

Alex Kozlenkov 

Frank McCabe 

Mala Mehrotra 

Stella Mitchell 

Leora Morgenstern 

Igor Mozetic 

Deborah Nichols 

Jeff Pan 

Uta Schwertel 

Said Tabet 

Unidentified: +1.650.857.aaaa 

Regrets: 

Jos de Bruijn 

Allen Ginsberg (Probably join late) 

Markus Krötzsch (unintentionally got disconnected from communication
networks due to travel) 

Paula-Lavinia Patranjan 

Dave Reynolds 

Michael Sintek 

Mohamed Zergaoui (fly to XProc f2f) 

Chair: 

Sandro Hawke 

Scribe: 

Deborah Nichols <http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/DeborahNichols>
(send corrections to Deborah <mailto:dlnichols@mitre.org> ) 


Contents


*	Topics 

	1.	ADMIN Approval of minutes and Agenda 
	2.	Liaison 
	3.	Review of Actions for Use Cases & Requirements 
	4.	Review of Actions for the RIFRAF 
	5.	Changes to the RIFRAF Questionnaire Section 3.1
(decidability) 
	6.	Coverage Requirements and the current RIFRAF 
	7.	New discriminators for the RIFRAF 
	8.	Participation in RIFRAF Questionnaire 
	9.	Action Review for other tasks 

*	Summary of Action Items 

________________________________

Topic 1.  ADMIN Approval of minutes and Agenda

Resolved: Minutes of 18 July 2006 Telecon were approved with the
proviso that Regrets information be added.

Don Chapin will post the minutes from the 25 July 2006 Telecon to the
WG mailing list (done during the meeting).

The Chair requested that members who cannot attend the 15 August
meeting post Regrets now.

Members are reminded of the policy to post Regrets for a meeting a
minimum of four days ahead if unable to attend.

No additions were made to the meeting agenda. Consideration of
Michael's semantics proposal is postponed so that participants have
time to review it. Please see the text in the Extensible_Design
<http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Extensible_Design>  document,
sections A.6 and A.7.

Topic 2.  Liaison

Most Liaisons were not in attendance and there were no updates.

Topic 3.  Review of Actions for Use Cases & Requirements
<http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/products/5> 

Action 58 <http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/actions/58>  (on
Sandro) to solve a formatting problem is continued.

Action 69 <http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/actions/69>  (on Alex)
to contact vendors to request feedback on UCR Working Draft 2 is
continued. Alex has been in contact with JBoss personnel and is
awaiting their replies. They expressed interest and might participate.

Action 68 <http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/actions/68>  (on Alex)
to add a mapping from PR conditions to the proposed RIF condition
language is partially fulfilled. Continued.

Action 72 <http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/actions/72>  (on Don
Chapin) to clarify UCR Working Draft issues is continued.

<Harold> Action 64 was completed (see 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2006Jul/0037.html
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2006Jul/0037.html> )
but not marked as closed. 

The Chair closed Action 64
<http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/actions/64> .

Topic 4.  Review of Actions for the RIFRAF
<http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/products/7> 

Action 79 <http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/actions/79>  (on Frank
McCabe) to propose type capabilities as a discriminator is continued.

No updates on several actions that are assigned to Axel (not
attending).

Topic 5.  Changes to the RIFRAF Questionnaire Section 3.1
(decidability)

Chair asked attendees for any response to proposed changes to the
RIFRAF Questionnaire section 3.1 discussed in Markus' email
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2006Jul/0042.html> .
No one made any comments at this time.

Topic 6.  Coverage Requirements and the current RIFRAF

Some coverage requirements for the RIF that were identified during F2F3
and incorporated in an earlier version of the RIFRAF are not included
in the current version of the RIFRAF. Paula's email
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2006Jul/0027.html>
details the coverage (or omission) of those Requirements in the current
RIFRAF. The Chair asked for responses on this topic, including comments
on Paula's email and/or discussion of other suggestions on restoring
those Requirements.

There were no comments or discussion at this time.

Topic 7.  New discriminators for the RIFRAF

ECA Discriminators

Discriminators related to events and actions in reactive rules
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2006Jul/0039.html> .
Paula's email proposed new discriminators for the RIFRAF to cover
Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules, as stipulated in the F2F3 coverage
requirements. Initially there was no discussion. The topic was
revisited after the RIFRAF Questionnaire poll.

<sandro> Gary and Hassan proposed that Paula's ECA discriminators be
added.

<AlexKozlenkov> Sounds reasonable

<FrankMcCabe> +1

<GaryHallmark> Paula's proposed discriminators are better aligned with
PR than the deduction-oriented questions are, even though there's a lot
about events in her discriminators that doesn't occur in production
rules.

The Chair noted general agreement among attendees to add Paula's
questions, but we may not have a quorum to decide the question. We will
conclude the question by email.

 

Discriminators related to rules meta-model

The Chair solicited comments on cmsa's email
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2006Jul/0048.html>
from yesterday about discriminators.

Hassan agreed with Gary (in last meeting) that the notion of what is a
discriminator is confusing, since applicable discriminators depend on
what kind of rule is being considered. cmsa's email proposed some
clarifications that may help. He agreed with cmsa's recommendation that
we not use the terms 'body' and 'head' because those terms are not used
consistently across rules community sub-groups. Hassan was not sure he
understood all csma's points. Hassan agreed on the need for a "clean"
vocabulary about rules and is willing to work with cmsa to come up with
a proposal.

<sandro> ACTION: Hassan to write response to cmsa's proposal on rule
vocabulary terms, asking him for clarifications where necessary
[recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/08/01-rif-minutes.html#action01
<http://www.w3.org/2006/08/01-rif-minutes.html#action01> ]

<Harold> Posting a link to relevant prior discussion on terminology: 
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Rulesystem_Arrangement_Framework
<http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Rulesystem_Arrangement_Framework>
. See the section "Mapping between deductive rule and reactive rule
terminology." This was basically done by Gary (I mostly assisted), and
should now again be relevant for Christian and Hassan.

 

Topic 8.  Participation in the RIFRAF Questionnaire
<http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/38457/RAFQuestionnaire/> 

<scribe> Chair: So far there have been 3 responses
<http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/38457/RAFQuestionnaire/results> ,
describing FLORA (F-Logic+HiLog+Transaction Logic); a subset of
standard Prolog; and the Prova rule language.

The Chair polled attendees about their participation in the
Questionnaire, including planned/future participation.

<johnhall> Donald and I didn't have time to turn the questionnaire with
colleagues on our team

<sandro> Sandro: n3, prolog -- hopefully soon

<sandro> Harold: oo-jdew

<DavidHirtle> OO jDREW generally

<Alex> Alex has already submitted for the Prova rule language.

<Deborah:> Will propose to MITRE Rules MSR team doing it for SWRL with
proposed extensions.

<Mike_Dean:> Peter is also working on SWRL.

The Chair observed it would be fine to have two views of SWRL, esp.
from two different perspectives (theoretical and pragmatic).

<sandro> Frank: planing to do GO -- typed

<igor> I have no plans for covering another language [already did
Prolog].

<JeffP> Plan to cover CIF but first need to talk to some people on
holiday.

<sandro> John: want to do SBVR -- with help from Terry Halpin.

Attendees asked whether there a new deadline, since the cutoff was
yesterday?

<sandro> Don: have changes from last week been made?

<sandro> Don: Looking for deadline.

<StellaMitchell> Will respond for an ECA language she is currently
working with that is an internal IBM language, not a product.

The Chair suggested that Stella look at Paula's suggested
discriminators
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2006Jul/0039.html>
to see if they make sense for her ECA language.

<sandro> Hassan: I provided descriptions early on for LIFE and ILOG's
products -- need to put it on the Questionnaire.

The Chair requested Hassan to transfer the content of his earlier work
on LIFE and ILOG to the RIFRAF Questionnaire page.

<sandro> Gary: I'll do it for Jess or Oracles's language -- but I want
to wait for Paula's work
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2006Jul/0039.html>
to be incorporated in the Questionnaire.

<johnhall> +1

Proposed: Add Paula's discriminators to the Questionnaire. See under 
Topic 7
<file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/dlnichols/My%20Documents/W3C/RIF
-WG/Minutes%2008012006/Copy%20of%2001-rif-minutes%20-%20draft%20revisio
n%20-%20DNichols.htm#item07#item07>  for discussion.

<Harold> Recommends that the RIFRAF Questionnaire be filled out for
each of the languages and/or systems included in the table on the "Rule
Systems" page (
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/List_of_Rule_Systems
<http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/List_of_Rule_Systems> ).

<SaidTabet> Events are a whole area currently explored and known in the
industry as 'Event Streaming' or 'Complex Events Processing', there was
a workshop on the topic earlier this year and the topics of ECA rules
came up...Will post the URL later

The Chair offered to create a link from the Questionnaire to the List
of Rule Systems to track that each is done.

<sandro> Mike_Dean: I'd be happy to review the entries for SWRL.

<sandro> Sandro: Would you be willing to do N3?

<sandro> Mike: I'll review yours!

<sandro> PhilippeB: Not committed at the moment. Might do jrules, but
he wants to discuss with csma and Hakim before committing.

<sandro> JosDeRoo: euler/n3 - in the coming weeks.

<MichaelKifer> Is not planning to do an additional language [already
submitted for FLORA].

<Leora:> Plans to do another internal IBM language, a subset of FOL
(called "ESN" internally but not really named), by a week from Friday.

<MalaMehrotra> Will touch base with Leora and then make a commitment.

<John Hall (for Said Tabet)> Said plans to do the Questionnaire for
RuleML.

The Chair concluded the survey of current and planned responses to the
RIFRAF Questionnaire.

Topic 9.  Action Review for other tasks

<scribe> Chair: Harold's action due date was updated.

<scribe> Chair: Hassan's action for mapping condition language was
continued, to be due next week.

<scribe> Chair: Michael posted his action result this morning. Closed.

<scribe> Chair: Paula is not here to discuss her actions.

<scribe> Chair: Sandro's action items were also continued.

Meeting adjourned at 12:11 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (U.S.).


Summary of Action Items


[NEW] ACTION: Hassan to write response to Christian's proposal, asking
for clarifications where necessary [recorded in 
http://www.w3.org/2006/08/01-rif-minutes.html#action01]

List of open Actions for RIF WG
<http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/actions/open>   
 

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